Chapter 11: Modernizing Immortal Cultivation

went up to the third floor and opened a door with "idlers are not allowed to enter", there were all kinds of things piled up in a mess, and Chen Jian was not the first time to come here, so it was not strange.

Suddenly, a rapid electronic chirp rang out in the room.

"Hah, the time is just right!" Luo Feng ran to a rice cooker and turned off the electronic reminder.

"Today is the day when the beta 1.57 version of the formula Nine Turns Jindan is released." Luo Feng, who was full of red light, said excitedly.

Chen Jian held his forehead with his hand, "Rice cooker alchemy pill...... I thought you were going to talk about it, but I didn't think you would actually do it. ”

This is the real reason why Luo Feng suddenly changed from a scumbag to a scholar, not that he gave up the idea of cultivating immortals, but that he realized that science is the primary productive force, and cultivating immortals must also keep pace with the times.

"As the so-called cultivation of immortals wants to be tasted, it all depends on medicine to feed, and cultivation of immortals wants to enter the industry, and it all depends on medicine to resist. Today's medicinal materials are not as good as in ancient times, what thousand-year-old ginseng, 10,000-year-old Ganoderma lucidum, that is all shadowless things, Wang Badu lived less than ten years to be boiled in the pot, so the first priority of my generation to cultivate immortals is to make scientific medicine, quench its essence, discard its dross, and refine the active ingredients of medicinal materials. ”

"The ancient method of alchemy is too wasteful of materials, and it cannot effectively remove the toxic components in it. After eating a five-stone powder, he actually had to run naked to dissipate heat, and in the end, he inevitably had some sequelae of heavy metal poisoning. ”

"I'm different, scientific analysis, improve the formula, increase the content of active ingredients, and reduce side effects."

Luo Feng believes that the main reason for the declining success rate of immortal cultivation in recent centuries is the mismatch between changes in the environment and the development of technology. The earliest recorded monks who cultivated immortals practiced the method of eating qi, eating and drinking dew, and directly absorbing energy from the aura of heaven and earth, the essence of the sun and the moon to cultivate.

Qu Yuan's "Chu Ci Far Travel" wrote: "Eat six qi and drink the sun, gargle the sun and contain the morning glow." It can be seen that people at that time could easily draw strength directly from the natural environment.

However, with the change of the environment, the aura of heaven and earth changed, and it became more and more difficult for cultivators to directly obtain energy in this way, so later cultivators created the golden pill method, practicing pills outside, refining the aura of heaven and earth precipitated in animals, plants, and minerals to indirectly obtain the energy needed for cultivation.

Cultivating one's life internally, refining one's body, and condensing one's soul, so that the three treasures of essence, energy, and spirit are as round as one, and the true nature of one spirit is not broken. And the mantra of refining and refining qi, refining gas and turning gods, and turning gods back to emptiness is familiar to the public, and the immortal cultivators are asking for a golden pill to swallow in their stomachs, and they know that my life is up to me.

If it is said that the cultivation method of the ancient immortal path is to use heaven and earth as furnaces, creation as work, yin and yang as charcoal, and all things as copper, so that the body is sanctified, and the form and spirit are wonderful. The four realms of truth, supreme, god, and holiness recorded in ancient books are even more subtle and indescribable.

The cultivation of the immortal path after the pre-Qin period relied more and more on alchemy, and gradually gave up the immortality of the physical body, but took the physical body as the furnace, the soul as the work, the elixir as carbon, the three treasures as copper, and the great avenue Dancheng, and the day soared.

Later, it became even more popular to dissect the corpse into an immortal, so he completely gave up the physical body and retreated to the pursuit of immortality. This is also because the difficulty of cultivating immortals is getting higher and higher, and within the limited longevity, it is impossible to take into account the primordial spirit and the physical body.

And in the past hundred years, even those who have been dissected into immortals have not heard of success. However, most cultivators did not think that it was a change in the environment, after all, the change in the environment was in tens of millions of years, imperceptibly, and there was not enough evidence to prove that the current natural environment was no longer suitable for cultivating immortals.

Therefore, his cultivators attributed the reason for the failure to the loss of the cultivation method, the ancients were able to cultivate into immortals, indicating that the methods of the ancients were more correct, and the inheritance handed down by the ancient immortals is now incomplete, so they drilled the mountains and dug the ground, archaeological tomb robbing, and wanted to make up for the cultivation methods used by the ancients and the prescriptions of various elixirs.

For this kind of immortal cultivator who believes that the older the cultivation method, the more reliable and effective it is, Luo Feng called it the Chonggu School. Laughing at these people for being illiterate and unrelievable, I wish I could see the Great Dao of Heaven and Earth from the strokes of the oracle bone inscription, I am afraid that it is not to cultivate immortals, but to return to their ancestors and cultivate into apes.

Luo Feng never thinks that today's people are inferior to the ancients, obviously the current people are smarter than the ancients, and the knowledge they have is richer and more advanced, why do they think that the methods created by the ancients will be more clever than those created by the current people.

"Cultivating immortals is a kind of transformation and evolution of life levels, and throughout the past dynasties, those who have cultivated immortals are basically not princes and nobles, or children of families, at least they are also scholars. It shows that the method of cultivating immortals has always been in the hands of educated and knowledgeable high-level intellectuals. Therefore, since ancient times, the methods of cultivating immortals have been researched and created by scientists. Illiterate people also want to become immortals, so let's dream of spring and autumn. ”

Luo Feng believes that the ancient monks and Taoist priests were all philosophers and scientists at that time. It's just that the purpose of their scientific research is not for social development, but for their own transcendence from the world. Although the purpose is different, the process is similar, and even the four major inventions are all related to immortal cultivators.

The six arts of cultivation, alchemy, tools, talismans, formations, numbers, and beast repellents. Isn't it biochemical pharmaceutical, metallurgical processing, rune programming, astronomy and geography, Zhou Yi arithmetic plus bioengineering?

However, due to the limitations of ancient technology, these cultivation methods all had major drawbacks and loopholes in Luo Feng's opinion. For example, alchemy, ancient alchemy is empiricism, through a large number of experiments to test the effectiveness of drugs, and in terms of research methods, the theory of yin and yang and five elements is the main body, lacking a more detailed and solid theoretical foundation of medicine and anthropology. So there are a lot of mistakes, omissions and fallacies.

For example, in history, many emperors who were addicted to cultivating immortals died by taking pills, were those Taoist priests who refined the elixir for him liars or deliberately harmed him?

This is highly likely. You must know that the companion is like a tiger, and those who can get too close to the emperor's side are basically the most outstanding people in the industry, and only by overwhelming the crowd can they win it. Once successful, it is to lead the Daomen and rule the mountains. The liar will be hacked to death by other immortal cultivators by fooling him.

And the pills they refined were naturally the most secure and sure pills they felt. Finally obtained the national resources, they naturally had to firmly hug the emperor's thighs, and once they were sons of heaven and courtiers, their net worth and lives had long been as prosperous as the emperor they served, and they were both lost.

Then why do you eat dead people, Luo Feng believes that it is because the side effects of the pills refined at that time are too great, and even the modern pharmaceutical industry cannot completely avoid the side effects of the drugs. What's more, it is an alchemy that was known in ancient times but did not know why.

Later, the qualification requirements for the Xiuxian Sect to accept disciples became higher and higher, also because of the side effects of the pill. If the physical fitness is a little worse and the drug poison is poisoned after taking it a few times, how can this kind of person continue to cultivate.

Only disciples with high self-resistance and strong detoxification function can hope to withstand the side effects of the elixir and succeed in cultivation, and the cultivation method has gradually further strengthened the cultivator's body resistance, self-healing ability and detoxification function.

"And now that science and technology are so developed, technology is so advanced, and the scientific and technological development of biology, chemistry, and medicine is changing with each passing day. Luo Feng said impassionedly.

Regarding Luo Feng's theory, Chen Jian didn't find anything wrong, and he was stunned by what he said. He also became his assistant.

Therefore, when Luo Feng was admitted to university, he did not hesitate to apply for the biomedical major and took a course in mechanical and electronic engineering. Determined to carry out modern immortal cultivation to the end.

And call himself a "cultivator of immortals".

"We are now in the glacial age of heaven and earth aura, but the harsher the environment, the more we have to innovate and change, the reason why human beings are the spirit of all things is to have a great ambition to overcome thorns and conquer nature, so what to rely on to achieve this ambition, nature is to rely on science and technology. Science and technology are the primary productive forces! ”

In order to practice his theory that approaching science is equivalent to approaching cultivating immortals, Luo Feng also arranged a laboratory in the office building of his funeral home to apply what he had learned, so he had such a disobedient operation as rice cooker alchemy pill.

This rice cooker has also been transformed by Luo Feng himself. And there is also the credit of Chen Jian here, originally Luo Feng set up an alchemy furnace on the gas stove to refine the pill, as a chef Chen Jian complained that although the gas stove can control the heat relatively well, it will also lead to a lot of waste of heat energy, and there is an upper limit on the temperature, which requires special care and many other restrictions.

Compared with gas stoves, if you use rice cookers, electric pressure cookers, and electric ovens, you can control the temperature and heating time more accurately, and they are fully automatic, which is more worry-free and labor-saving. In fact, this is just a chef's sense of humor, but Luo Feng was greatly inspired when he heard it.

In ancient times, there were many processes that required the use of spells, but now there are a few immortal cultivators who can have enough mana and can send out a small flame, and they have already been shocked and worshiped as masters.

Luo Feng knows someone who can send thunder in his palm, but in fact, he smeared white phosphorus powder with a low ignition point in his palm in advance, and then used his power to heat his palm, which means that his skill can only heat his palm to 40 degrees, and when he reaches this temperature, he can make white phosphorus spontaneously combust, and then throw it out hard, looking like a fire thunder is emitted from his palm. Relying on this trick alone, he has become a guest of many officials and nobles, a master in one mouth, and gives gifts and money to worship.

Now spells can't be used, all can be realized with technology, electric ovens, rice cookers, electric pressure cookers are used to heat and pressurize, refrigerators are used to freeze and condense. The wall breaker is used to process medicinal materials, the centrifuge is used to separate extracts, and various instruments and equipment are used to process and extract active ingredients. A sterile, constant temperature control table prevents changes in the chemical properties of the material during processing.

Finally, it was time to turn on the rice cooker and accept the results.

When the lid was lifted, there were small compartments in the inner pot, and there was a pill in each compartment, a total of 24 pills.

"This Nine Zhuan Jindan is based on Fu Qingzhu's improved Canglong Bamboo Yeqing formula for the second time, and the first 56 experiments have confirmed that the medicinal properties are mild and have no obvious toxic side effects. The main purpose of this improvement is to increase the rate of Chengdan. ”

Fu Qingzhu is a generation of strange people four hundred years ago, with the reputation of "learning the sea", he is good at calligraphy and painting, erudite books, in the subset of classics and history, literature and poetry, calligraphy and painting, Zhong Ding writing, medicine and medical skills have profound research and high achievements, can be called a real all-rounder.

And he not only understands Buddhism and Taoism in practice, but also likes food and wine, and also has high achievements in winemaking and medicinal food, and adheres to integrity, is upright, and has noble medical ethics, so Luo Feng and Chen Jian worship Fu Qingzhu very much. He spent a great deal of time collecting and researching his classic writings.

In one of the fragments, Chen Jian found a recipe for brewing wine, and Luo Feng found that the recipe for brewing wine was very similar to the prescription of the old Canglong pill, so they judged that this was the recipe that Fu Qing used to improve the old Canglong pill for brewing medicinal wine.

According to legend, the original version of the old Canglong pill is from the ancestor of Chen Lu, and it is placed on the stone tablet of Huashan, which has the effect of rejuvenating and rejuvenating. Danfang has to process and develop 28 kinds of medicinal materials separately, the process is complex, and there are many versions that have been circulated in later generations, and each family has deleted and increased. Fu Qingzhu's wine recipe was even more deleted and modified, and only 18 medicinal herbs remained.

Luo Feng also studied the medicinal properties and further improved them from the perspective of medicinal chemistry and active ingredients. The finished product will also be sent to the university brother who works for the Food and Drug Administration to help with testing to ensure that it is non-toxic and harmless, and has few side effects.

Take out 24 grains of Cheng Dan, look at its color, smell its smell, and then weigh and other tests to exclude 8 of the bad pills.

"Yes, the yield rate has exceeded 6." Chen Jian didn't expect that the rice cooker alchemy pill was quite good, and the success rate of Luo Feng's refining pill had been less than three percent before.

"You can't think so, now after using a rice cooker, the factor of uneven heating has been reduced to a very low level, why is there more than 30% of the bad pill when the same pot comes out." Luo Feng took a whiteboard marker and wrote and drew some symbols and formulas in front of the whiteboard, which Chen Jian couldn't understand, and fell into deep thought.

Where is this like cultivating immortals, it is obviously engaged in scientific research. Chen Jian was accustomed to Luo Feng's Einstein-like contemplation, and knew that he would not be able to take care of himself for a while. I walked out of the lab, closed the door, put on the "Do Not Disturb" sign again, and ran to the kitchen.