Chapter Twenty-Seven: Into the Mountains to Find Medicine
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Lu Yu had just run a few steps when he was stopped by Tietou.
Lu Yu secretly complained in his heart, but he could only bite the bullet and turn his head to look at the iron head.
"What else?"
Tietou looked at Lu Yu, who was a little unnatural, strangely, and asked, "Brother Lu, it will be dark in another hour." I'll prepare dinner right away, so why don't you wait until you're done before cultivating. ā
It turns out that the iron head said this, which makes me worry.
As soon as Lu Yu put his mind at ease, he hurriedly refused: "Forget it, I still don't need it." ā
"But Brother Lu, you haven't eaten for a day. I'm afraid you're starving. ā
"Hey, Iron Head, I thank you for your concern, but it's wrong to think so. ā
"Now the time is very urgent, Brother Qiang's threat is imminent, I must improve my strength as soon as possible. Compared with this, the lack of one meal or two meals is not tight. ā
Lu Yu casually found a righteous and awe-inspiring excuse and prevaricated the iron head.
In fact, it's not that Lu Yu doesn't want to eat, after all, Lu Yu is indeed hungry for a day.
It's just that after the devastation just now, Lu Yu's taste at this time has been overstimulated.
Now, don't say it's a meal made by an iron head, you just put the delicacies of the mountains and seas in front of Lu Yu, and Lu Yu still chews it like wax and is difficult to swallow.
If Lu Yu wants to recover his appetite, it will take at least three or five days.
Lu Yu's words once again succeeded in bluffing the iron head, and the iron head could only nod.
Lu Yu was overjoyed in his heart, and was just about to leave, when his eyes glanced at it, and he happened to see the medicine jar he used to boil medicine.
Lu Yu's eyes changed, and he pointed to the medicine jar and said, "Tietou, that jar should not be used to cook meat in the future." From today onwards, that's my special medicine tank. ā
"What! Brother Lu, you still have to refine medicine. ā
"Refine! I have to refine!" Lu Yu said firmly: "I have made so many preparations before, and I must not give up halfway." ā
While speaking, Lu Yu silently added a sentence in his heart: If I can't refine a good medicine, how can I be worthy of the sin I suffered today.
The failure of the first refining medicine not only did not defeat Lu Yu, but instead aroused a stubbornness in Lu Yu's heart.
Under the influence of that half bowl of medicine, Lu Yu did not completely recover until the fifth day.
Fortunately, although Lu Yu was refining medicine for the first time, he did not have the skill to refine tonic medicine into poison, let alone such luck against the sky. So Lu Yu just lost his appetite for a few days, and there was no other harm.
And in the past few days, Lu Yu has not been idle, and he turned out the encyclopedia of medicinal herbs again, and read it carefully from front to back.
This time, Lu Yu looked at it very carefully, especially the annotations on the medicinal materials, Lu Yu looked at it quite seriously.
After that, Lu Yu started his career in medicine refining again.
From morning to night, in addition to cultivating and eating, Lu Yu spent all his energy on refining medicine, refining at least one jar of medicine every day.
Because there was no teacher to teach, Lu Yu could only slowly explore by himself. The best way is to drink the medicine you have practiced and savor the difference in its medicinal power.
So, under the rhythm of vomiting a day, ejaculating every three days, and losing his appetite every three or five days, Lu Yu's alchemy technique was stagnant in this way.
In addition to becoming more and more proficient in the heat of alchemy, in two months, Lu Yu's alchemy technique has not improved much.
This made Lu Yu quite depressed.
And what made Lu Yu even more depressed happened next.
The dozens of medicinal herbs that Lu Yu had spent most of his time accumulating were squandered by Lu Yu in less than two months.
Even that Ganoderma lucidum was refined into a black liquid by Lu Yu.
If he wanted to continue refining medicine, Lu Yu had to enter the mountain again.
In order to fight for this breath, Lu Yu made a decisive choice.
The sect of Jiuxuan Palace is located on a dangerous peak in Jizhou, and the sect is surrounded by mountains and forests, few people are there, and there are many birds of prey and monsters.
The disciples of the Nine Xuan Palace, unless they encountered a last resort, rarely went deep into the mountains and forests around the sect alone.
Because no one can tell how much danger lurks in there.
No matter how bold Lu Yu is, he is well aware of such a danger. Therefore, Lu Yu tried his best to move on the periphery of the dense forest, and never dared to run into the depths of the dense forest.
Lu Yu held a long bamboo pole in his hand, and played with the grass in front of him as he walked. If there is any danger, Lu Yu can find it in advance.
"Brother Lu, it's been a few days since we came out. Shouldn't I go back?"
The iron head followed closely behind Lu Yu and shouted at Lu Yu.
Lu Yu stopped and looked back at Tietou: "Tietou, what's wrong." It's only been a few days, and you're already tired?"
"Tired but not tired. I'm just a little worried, we've been out for so long this time, what if the sect asks about it when the time comes?"
"Oh, I see. Lu Yu said: "You don't have to worry about this. You're not the same as you used to be, you're no longer your average handyman. If the sect asks, you will say that you have come here to retreat and cultivate. The sect will definitely not be blamed for this. ā
Because of the good performance of the iron head in the assessment, in addition to giving the necessary rewards, the sect has also become extremely lenient in their requirements for the iron head.
The current iron head doesn't even have to work, and only needs to concentrate on cultivation.
There are hundreds of thousands of miscellaneous servants in the Jiuxuan Palace, and it doesn't matter at all if one more person works and less people work. But if a genius who can cultivate the truth can emerge from these miscellaneous servants, then the Nine Xuan Palace will make a lot of money.
Therefore, before being completely disappointed in Tietou, Jiuxuan Palace would not blame Tietou for this kind of thing at all.
As for Lu Yu, a waste who can't even be a formal handyman, the sect doesn't have the heart to ask.
Hearing Lu Yu's explanation, Tietou was a little relieved.
"Brother Lu, how long are you going to stay in the woods this time? I see you've been digging up medicinal herbs, but we've been digging up more than a dozen medicinal herbs in the past few days. I guess it's pretty much the same. ā
"Iron Head, this time is different. We'll have to work a little harder. ā
More than a dozen medicinal herbs sound like a big harvest. But according to Lu Yu's consumption when he practiced refining medicine, I am afraid that these ten or so medicinal materials will not be able to support it for even a week.
So Lu Yu must work harder.
Seeing that Lu Yu was so persistent, Tietou didn't say anything anymore, but just followed closely behind Lu Yu.
Today is the fourth day that Lu Yu has entered the mountain.
This time he entered the mountain, Lu Yu focused his main energy on collecting medicinal materials.
Lu Yu had memorized all the contents of the encyclopedia of medicinal materials before, and it finally came in handy at this time.
Along the way, Lu Yu discovered a lot of medicinal materials that he didn't know or ignored. In just a few days, Lu Yu has gained a lot.
This boosted Lu Yu's confidence, and also allowed Lu Yu to slowly recover from the haze of the previous month.
In order to collect more materials for refining medicine for himself, Lu Yu decided to stay in the woods for a while longer.
In this regard, although the iron head had some doubts, he did not say much. just carried the package full of the fruits of Lu Yu's labor tightly, and followed behind Lu Yu step by step.
Time, another two days have passed.
In order to avoid encountering too much danger, Lu Yu and Tietou had been active near the stream before, and they had not left too far. But because of the continuous harvest in the past two days, Lu Yu was a little excited today, and he didn't notice these at all.
When Lu Yu carefully pulled up a blood ginseng, he finally realized that he seemed to have run a little far.
Lu Yu immediately stopped, and after a little rest with Tietou, he began to walk back.
But after a few steps, Lu Yu stopped again.
In a bush not far away, there was a pile of things that attracted Lu Yu's attention.
That's not a medicinal herb, not even a good thing.
It was a pile of, a pile of black bear droppings.
Lu Yu stepped forward to take a look, and found that the feces were still steaming, exuding a pungent smell.
Around the dung, Lu Yu also found a few fresh footprints, and there were even black bear claw marks on the trunk not far away.
This made Lu Yu's eyes change slightly.
The iron head behind ran up to take a look, and found that Lu Yu was looking for a pile of feces, and he was puzzled.
"Brother Lu, isn't this just a pile of feces, what's there to see?"
"It's a pile of black bear droppings. Lu Yu corrected.
"So what?" "What does this have to do with us?"
"The pile of is still steaming, and the footprints and claw marks around it are new. It means that the black bear has just left not long ago, and it should be around here. ā
After following Lu Yu for more than a year, Tietou has adapted to Lu Yu's way of speaking and thinking habits. So when Lu Yu said this, Tietou instantly had a bad feeling.
Tietou looked at Lu Yu with some incredulity: "Brother Lu, should you be thinking about ......?"
"Black bear, it's a treasure all over your body. Lu Yu's eyes showed a bright light, and he said: "Bear bile, bear meat, bear bone, bear fat, bear brain, bear paw, and bear tendon can all be used in medicine." Bear bile can clear away heat and detoxify, stop spasmodic, and brighten the eyes. Bear meat can replenish deficiency, strengthen muscles and bones, and benefit the kidneys and strengthen essence. Bear bones have the function of removing rheumatism and strengthening muscles and bones. Bear fat has the function of replenishing deficiency, strengthening muscles and bones, and moisturizing the skin. Bear brain can replenish the brain and marrow, dispel wind, relieve itching, and grow hair. Bear's paw has the functions of resisting wind and cold, invigorating qi, nourishing qi and blood, dispelling wind and paralysis, continuing to eliminate injuries, dispelling rheumatism, and strengthening the spleen and stomach. Bear tendons have the function of strengthening muscles and strengthening, searching for wind and bones. ā
Refining medicine is not only used in medicinal materials, but also some other things.
Lu Yu's book of medicinal materials has a special part, which is to introduce the medicinal value of various animals. Among them, the value of black bears is undoubtedly very high.
In the eyes of a genuine alchemist, a huge black bear is a mobile medicinal herb storehouse.
Because of this, for Lu Yu, who is practicing alchemy, a black bear is a treasure that cannot be missed.
"Even if it doesn't have these medicinal properties. An adult black bear, to say the least, weighs three or four hundred pounds. If we call back, it will be enough for us to eat for a few months. As for the fur of the black bear, it is also very valuable, and it can be returned with a lot of good things. ā
After counting the medicinal value of the black bear, Lu Yu glanced at the iron head and specially added such a sentence.