As Master spoke, wrinkles quickly grew on his face and on the backs of his hands, and his hair gradually turned gray, and I felt that Master's size had shrunk slightly.

After leaving the spiritual spring, the master returned to his original appearance.

But when I witnessed Master's entire aging process from youth to old age, I could always feel a sense of vicissitudes in my heart, as if the person who had grown old was not my Master, but me.

The master lit the smoke pot, swallowed the clouds and spitted out the fog, and went towards the alchemy room.

According to the master, before the Ming Dynasty, there was indeed a Dan furnace in this place, and at that time, the Yin and Yang sand of the Yuxian vein and the Xuan tortoise shell of the Tunmeng vein were all refined from the Dan furnace. But with the change of the times, new equipment appeared, the refining process also changed, the alchemy room became a laboratory, and the Dan furnace was replaced with a variety of instruments and instruments.

As for the Dan furnace in the early years, it has been donated to a local Taoist temple, and it is said that the Taoist priests in that Taoist temple are still using the Dan furnace to refine Dan, as for what kind of Dan they refine, I have no way of knowing.

The alchemy room was not far from the well, and Master and I had not walked for a few minutes to arrive, and as soon as we stepped into the threshold, we saw Senior Brother Zhuang and Senior Brother Feng sitting in the room, chatting with each other.

Beside them was a table at least two meters long, covered with a layer of silvery metal with a slightly oily sheen.

In this house, there is a very complex smell, the smell is a bit like disinfectant water in the hospital, and it has a pungent smell of alcohol, in short, it is very complicated, it should be a strange smell derived from the smell of several chemical reagents mixed together.

When Senior Brother Zhuang and Senior Brother Feng saw my master come in, they both got up and gave a simple fist salute to my master.

My master smiled at them and then asked, "Are the test results out?" ”

Senior Brother Zhuang nodded: "It's out, but it's ...... I can't say it clearly in a sentence or two, so Uncle Shi should see it for himself. ”

The test results? What are the test results?

As I was thinking about this, Senior Brother Feng took out two fish tanks from the room next to me and placed them on a table covered with metal.

That are two ordinary fish tanks, with round mouths and big bellies, filled with water, and two fiery red goldfish. It's just that I found out that one of the fish had a spirit on it.

On the left fin of the fish without Lingyun, there is also a pale yellow "2" written on it, and I don't know how Senior Brother Feng wrote it.

After that, Senior Brother Feng took out a transparent glass bottle from the room and placed it on the table as well.

The thing that hit the bottle was the Yin Jade we took out from the Evil Tomb, and the water in the bottle was probably the rootless water that Huang Yulian had collected at the beginning.

But the strange thing is that when I saw the yin jade this time, I didn't feel the yin qi on it.

After Senior Brother Feng had set up the three things, he asked Senior Brother Zhuang, "Do you want to start?" ”

Senior Brother Zhuang nodded at him, and then said to me again: "There is a way, you should operate it, the yin qi of this jade is too heavy, and you and Senior Brother Feng can't withstand it." ”

As soon as I nodded, Senior Brother Feng pushed the glass bottle in front of me and said to me, "Put this jade into that fish tank." ”

As Senior Brother Feng spoke, he also stretched out his hand and pointed to one of the fish tanks, the fish in this fish tank had no spiritual rhyme.

When I unscrewed the cap of the glass bottle, an unusually majestic yin qi suddenly emanated from the flat mouth, Senior Brother Feng hurriedly retreated, and the moment this yin qi appeared, I also felt as if my heart was frozen, and almost stopped beating, but fortunately, the black water corpse coffin exerted force in time, and quickly expelled the yin qi in my body.

I put my hand into the bottle, took out the Yin Jade, and put it into the fish tank that Senior Brother Feng pointed to.

Senior Brother Feng immediately took out a piece of deerskin-like thing from his pocket and covered the mouth of the fish tank, not to mention, when he covered it like this, the yin qi in the air disappeared, it seemed that this piece of "deer skin" sealed the yin qi on the yin jade.

I glanced at the lid of the glass bottle again, which was also wrapped in such a layer of "deerskin".

At this time, Senior Brother Feng turned me with his elbow: "Look carefully." ”

I turned my head to look at him, and he pointed at the fish bowl again.

I scratched my head, and lay on the table with Senior Brother Feng, looking at the fish tank, not only the two of us, but even Master and Senior Brother Zhuang were all looking at the fish tank with full attention.

After a long time, I didn't notice anything abnormal, and I was a little impatient, but I saw that Senior Brother Feng was still extremely focused, so I also settled down and stared at the fish tank motionlessly.

I don't know how long it was, but a green light suddenly appeared on the yin jade, and this light appeared for a very short time, and it was fleeting, but I still saw it.

After that, I felt the goldfish in the tank shudder, but when I turned my eyes to it, I noticed that its body looked a little ghosted.

I didn't see it too really, but I felt that the body of the goldfish seemed to have become two, and both were empty, and I wondered if I was drunk at the time.

I rubbed my temples and looked at it, and a strange scene appeared, the fish in the fish tank turned out to be two.

The two fish look exactly the same, even the number on the left fin is exactly the same.

I was taken aback by this sudden scene, and when I looked at the master, I saw that the master frowned tightly, and he muttered, "Pisces jade pendant?" ”

I could tell from his tone that Master didn't seem to be sure in his heart when he said these four words.

At this time, there was a sudden sound of "fluttering, fluttering" in the fish tank, I looked towards the fish tank, and I saw two fish in the fish tank fighting, one of them was very manic, constantly shaking the tail and fins to attack, while the other fish has been in a passive situation.

Senior Brother Feng said to me, "Hurry up and take out the jade, quick!" ”

I immediately lifted the skin from the fish tank, took out the yin jade, quickly put it back in the glass bottle, and closed the cap again.

Just as I was retracting the Yin Jade, the fish that had been attacked had slowly surfaced with its belly upwards, while the fish that had been restless since just now gradually quieted down.

Immediately after that, it kept circling in the fish tank, as if it had developed a great fear of something, but there was nothing else in the fish in the fish tank, except for the fish it had killed.

It took about three or four minutes for the fish to finally calm down.

But Senior Brother Feng obviously didn't intend to let it stay like this, he stretched out his hand, directly grabbed the fish, and threw it on the table. Then the fish began to struggle with all its might, and as it shook its body and tail, there was a dull thud on the metal-wrapped tabletop.

I don't know how long a fish can live out of the water, but I've never seen a fish struggle for 30 minutes without resting after leaving the water.

Master stared at the fish, his face becoming more and more ugly.

I didn't think much about it at first, until my master said, "The vitality is too strong, too strong beyond common sense." ”

Hearing Master say this, I suddenly thought of the mercenaries I met in the Dragon King's Tomb.

The vitality is too strong, too strong to be unreasonable!

Senior Brother Feng picked up the fish on the table and put it into the fish tank, after it entered the water, it swam happily, and the lack of oxygen for the previous half hour did not seem to have any effect on it.

Senior Brother Zhuang on the side said: "Any kind of creature is affected by Yin Jade, and its vitality will become very tenacious, but this kind of jade is ineffective against things with spiritual rhyme. When it is immersed in rootless water, it also fails. ”

As he spoke, Senior Brother Zhuang pointed to another fish tank and glanced at me.

I understood what Senior Brother Zhuang meant, and was about to take out the Yin Jade from the glass bottle, but Master waved his hand at me: "Forget it, don't try." ”

After speaking, my master asked my senior brother Zhuang again: "This kind of jade, can it replicate living creatures?" ”

Senior Brother Zhuang nodded solemnly: "I'm afraid so." ”

The master clasped his hands, frowned tightly, and said again: "Pisces jade pendant? ”

This time, Master's tone was still full of uncertainty.

I asked Senior Brother Feng with some curiosity, "What is the Pisces Jade Pendant?" ”

Senior Brother Feng said to me: "Decades ago, the scientific expedition personnel dug up a jade sickle from Lop Nur, which can reverse yin and yang and replicate living creatures. Because of this, the jade sickle is called the 'Pisces Jade Pendant'. However, not long after this experiment was completed, the Pisces jade pendant was stolen and has not been found. ”

As soon as Senior Brother Feng finished speaking, Senior Brother Zhuang then said to my master: "Youyi and I also suspect that this piece of broken jade is a fragment of the Pisces jade pendant. ”

But my master shook his head: "No, I've seen the Pisces Jade Pendant, and the Yin Qi on it is not so strong." ”

Senior Brother Zhuang said, "My master said the same thing. ”

My master pondered for a while, and then asked my Senior Brother Zhuang: "Are all the things copied by Yin Yu so irritable?" ”

Senior Brother Zhuang nodded: "When they are copied in the first few minutes, they will become inexplicably manic, and the main body will become very weak at this time, so that the clone has a great chance of killing the main body and replacing it." And we also found that Yin Jade can make a secondary copy of the replica, that is, when the body dies, the replica becomes the main body, and can be copied by the Yin Jade again, and the more times it is copied like this, the more manic the new replica will be, and the vitality will be stronger. ”

Senior Brother Feng also picked up: "Not only the vitality, but also the recovery ability will become stronger and stronger with the more copies are made, Senior Brother Zhuang and I speculate that if this replication process is repeated enough times, it can even create something that is immortal and immortal." However, the secondary reproduction can only be carried out if the main body dies, and if the main body and the replica exist at the same time, the Yin Jade is ineffective for both the main body and the replica. ”