Chapter 63: Refining Medicine
Ding Qin followed the envoy all the way, and his mood was also complicated. He didn't know what to expect. If everything goes well, help someone cure the disease and remove the poison, and then rush back by yourself, that is the best.
However, he himself felt that things might not go as planned.
According to the request of the bone soul, Ding Qin probably asked the basic situation of the old city lord. About two years ago, the old city lord began to have eye discomfort, and although he had been treated with many methods, his symptoms kept getting worse until he met the man who was lost in the desert half a year ago.
Ding Qin was very skeptical that this person was the one who poisoned him. However, that person's name was Qin Ke, and he was not surnamed Yang.
Of course, the possibility that the name is fake is not ruled out.
Entering Muromei City, no one noticed Ding Qin. Two envoys took Ding Qin directly outside a domed building in the center, one of them went in to make a report, and the other accompanied Ding Qin outside.
After a while, words came from inside, and the master was invited to come in and talk about it.
Ding Qin slowly walked into the room and found that there was a hall inside, which was extremely spacious. On the steps directly opposite the hall is a large chair that can even lie down as a bed. On the chair sat an old man with a white beard, his expression was calm, but his eyes were blank.
Because he is the lord of the city who can't see now.
At the bottom of the steps, there were seats on each side, and several people sat on the upper part.
Among them, Ding Qin recognized at a glance, that was the person who fought with him in Fangzhu City.
The envoy stepped forward and said, "City Lord, the master has arrived. ”
The city lord smiled, "I want to thank the master for working hard to treat my eye disease." ”
Ding Qin said, "The city lord doesn't have to be polite. I'm not a tall person, but I just happened to be passing by. The lord of the castle can call me Kihachi. ”
Because he didn't want to reveal his identity, Ding Qin just made up a name casually. The city lord said, "It's okay, it's more accommodating to call the name." Kihachi, do you know what my eye disease is?"
Ding Qin looked around for a week and said, "City Lord, it is inconvenient to say this matter publicly. Can you tell me about it alone?"
The city lord was stunned for a moment, obviously hesitating. Soon, though, he said, "You come forward. ”
Ding Qin followed his words and walked up the steps. The city lord directly pressed a button on the chair, and the entire platform slowly descended, and finally the two of them arrived in a secret room underground.
The city lord waited for the roof above to be closed before he spoke, "Say it." ”
Ding Qin said, "City Lord, you're not sick, you're poisoned." A long time ago, there was a place called Five Poison Island, which disappeared for various reasons. However, the five families on the Five Poison Island, each family has a strange poison, and the poison you have is the poison of the Yang family, named Erquan Yingyue. ”
The city lord was visibly stunned. After a moment of silence, he said, "Five Poison Islands? The doctor also said that I may have been poisoned, but I have not been able to solve it. Later, whether it was poisoning or illness, there was no accurate diagnosis. ”
Ding Qin said, "This kind of unique poison must be approached before it can be poisoned. Moreover, there is only one antidote to this poison, and there is no drug that slows the progression of the disease, or it is a drug that slows down the toxicity. Speaking of which, the lord probably knows that I'm going to talk to you alone. ”
The city lord nodded slowly, "Are you afraid that after you tell some truth, you will bring trouble to yourself." It's also well thought out. ”
Ding Qin said, "Actually, the lost traveler in the desert you saved half a year ago used the medicine made of the meat of the nine-turn green ring snake, which is the antidote. It's just that he won't give you a full dose, so your poison will never be cured. ”
The city lord's expression changed significantly. He frowned, "You mean, Qin Ke deliberately didn't let my poison get rid of it?"
Ding Qin said, "That's right. Qin Ke is not among those people just now, I don't know. ”
The city lord shook his head, "Qin Ke has always been just a foreigner, and he can't enter the council hall without my permission." So he's not there. ”
Ding Qin said, "No matter what his intentions are, the city lord must be careful. In addition, who poisoned you, the city lord must also investigate carefully. If there is a foreign person surnamed Yang around the city lord, he should be even more careful. ”
The city lord said, "I don't have a surname Yang by my side. However, why did Qin Ke know how the antidote was prepared?"
This question, Ding Qin has already asked the bone soul. "The poison of the two springs reflecting the moon was once used by the Five Poison Islands on the powerful people at that time. Later, the official was furious and detained the entire Yang family, forcing them to hand over the antidote formula. Therefore, some people have mastered this antidote. However, with the complete destruction of the Five Poison Island, people's attention to this antidote was low. ”
The city lord nodded slowly, "Muba, I listen to your voice, I shouldn't be too old." But you are well-informed, but it makes me sigh to myself. ”
Ding Qin said, "The city lord has won the prize." Mu Ba is still in trouble, if the city lord has no objection, I can immediately help the city lord to make medicine, and after the detoxification, I will leave. As for the person who poisoned him, it was inconvenient for Muba to intervene. ”
The city lord said, "Okay." If you need to prepare any materials, I will send someone to send them down. ”
Ding Qin said, "No. City Lord, the pharmaceutical process, there is no need to keep it secret, we can go up now. ”
After the lord pressed the button, the two men returned to the ground. Ding Qin glanced at those people, but they were all calm, not like any one had a ghost in his heart.
Ding Qin listed the materials needed one by one, and wanted to ask the city lord to take a look, but he thought that the city lord was blind, so he handed them over to the envoy. The envoy briefly reported to the city lord and immediately sent someone to do it, and in a short time, more than twenty kinds of materials were neatly placed in the hall.
The city lord then asked people to count the materials, and asked, "Is it consistent with the materials used by Qin Ke?"
The man replied in unison. The anger on the city lord's face gradually appeared, "Come on, first control Qin Ke for me." I'll ask him in detail after my poison is resolved. ”
Ding Qin didn't speak, and sat down in front of a half-meter-high alchemy furnace. The medicine furnace is cast of fine copper, and the whole body is purple and red, which is very simple. The furnace is divided into two layers, the upper layer is the alchemy area, with a feeding port, and the lower layer is the fire control area, which needs to use spiritual power to drive the formation to control the temperature and time.
Refining medicine, Ding Qin had never tried it before. Bone Soul also said that he didn't have much talent for refining medicine, so there was no need to develop in that direction. But now, things have come to this point, and he has to try it himself.
I don't know if I don't try, and I'm shocked when I try. The control of the fire in the medicine furnace is far more difficult than imagined. The furnace fire has extremely high requirements for the accuracy of spiritual power, and if there is more spiritual power, the temperature is too high, and when the spiritual power is low, the temperature is not enough. Ding Qin first got used to it for more than ten minutes, and only after confirming that he could basically meet the requirements of the bone soul did he start to add materials.
However, he was very surprised that this process was seen by others. Because of professional pharmacy, there will also be this process, which is called a furnace.
In particular, the envoy whispered a few words in the city lord's ear, and a look of admiration immediately appeared on the city lord's face.
Only less than a quarter of the medicinal herbs were invested, and the whole hall was already filled with fragrance. In the next water filling process, Ding Qin glanced at a small water tank next to him, and his brows furrowed slightly.
Such water, used in medicine, is not pure enough.
With a slight movement of his hand, he activated the water technique. Soon, some water vapor in the air condensed, and finally it dripped into the medicine furnace like rain.
As soon as he used the magic technique, the kind of spiritual pressure on Ding Qin's body slowly dispersed.
As soon as the spiritual pressure came out, everyone was shocked.
Only after the spiritual power reaches the third order, can the spiritual pressure appear!
Ding Qin was completely focused on controlling fire and refining medicine, barely noticing people's expressions. He was still extremely careful to control the heat, and at the same time, according to the requirements of the bone soul, he put the materials into the medicine furnace every second.
And to his right, a young man's gaze also became hot at this moment.
That's the guy who had fought him.
He was too familiar with Ding Qin's figure, especially this spiritual pressure. However, Ding Qin was wearing a mask, and he couldn't confirm whether Ding Qin was the one who hurt him with the demon wolf.
After a while, he turned and beckoned to someone outside. The man came to him, listened to him bow his head and whispered a few words, and quickly left.
Although the aroma produced during the refining process gives people a feeling of enjoyment, time passes very slowly in everyone's consciousness. Especially for Ding Qin, it is necessary to continue to control the heat, which may be several times stronger than the usual hard work of cultivation.
So, when the refining process was almost halfway through, he was already sweating profusely. The sweat on his head had soaked the hood, and it was slightly white. In order to keep him fresh, there were two people in the room who squatted on either side of him and helped him fan one by one.
Ding Qin didn't expect that the time for refining medicine would be so long. However, after this, he could better understand why the price of the finished pill was several times higher than that of the material.
More than four hours had passed, and the process of refining the medicine had reached three-quarters of the way. Ding Qin's physical strength was basically about to reach its limit, but he had no other choice but to continue to persevere.
Because by this time, all the ingredients, including the meat of the nine-turn green ringsnake, had been put in. If you give up, not only will the elixir fail, but all the materials will be incinerated.
When the control of spiritual power had begun to be unstable, Ding Qin's heart was horizontal, and all his spiritual power was released.
Behind him, four stars appeared, and at the same time, there were people's voices of surprise.
A so-called master who can save the city lord, a person with spiritual pressure, actually only has the fourth level of spiritual power?
The cultivation is not high, the age is not high, and he wears a hood, Ding Qin's sense of mystery is getting stronger and stronger.
However, the person who had fought with Ding Qin had more and more heat in his eyes.
Because he remembered Ding Qin's cultivation, his spiritual power was at the fourth level, and he was one level lower than himself!
Could it be him? Could it really be him? He had asked this question more than once in his mind.
At the same time, a shock and apprehension appeared on his face.
Because he thought of a more serious problem. If this Mu Ba in front of him is the person from Fangzhu City who fought at the beginning, is the medicine he refined used to save the city lord or harm the city lord?