Chapter 33: Improvisation

"Auxiliary monk?" Shi Tuo was a little puzzled. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info

"That's right, ordinary monks follow the cultivation path of advancing with all their might and improving their combat power. And your qualifications, the pursuit of cultivation level improvement is destined to be too slow. It's better to give up some and concentrate on developing in the direction of alchemy. Old Man Mi explained to Shi Tuo.

Shi Tuo's eyes rolled, and he thought in his heart: If you don't join the sect now, it is estimated that you will not even be able to cultivate. And this Dan Grass Hall, although I heard others say that the scale is very small, but looking at this old man, he should also be a cultivator. It's better to join in first and learn some cultivation methods.

So, Shi Tuo made up his mind and replied: "Thank you seniors for your kindness!"

Old man Mi saw that Shi Tuo was so polite, and his face wrinkled like a chrysanthemum was also a little more vivid because of his smile for a while.

The people of the other sects in the valley all laughed when they saw this scene. They congratulated the old man Mi for "being a good apprentice".

But Old Man Mi didn't care about this at all, and walked slowly among the crowds with crutches.

Since Shi Tuo has made up his mind, he naturally no longer cares about what others say, and he regards all those sneers as wind in his ears.

After recruiting Shi Tuo, Old Man Mi seemed to have achieved the purpose of this trip, and he no longer went to the valley, but took Shi Tuo out of the valley together.

"Come on!" As soon as he got out of the valley, Old Man Mi pinched the trick in his hand, his lips trembled slightly, and the original crutch swelled several times and floated at his feet.

Shi Tuo didn't know how to take a ride, and now that he saw that he could hitchhike, he naturally didn't hesitate anything, followed Old Man Mi, and stepped on the crutch.

Boom!

As soon as Shi Tuo stood firm, Old Man Mi's crutches rushed out. In the blink of an eye, it was already flying fast in mid-air.

Shi Tuo took a look at the speed of this crutch, which was much faster than the flying sword of the old man in the Qi training period he encountered at the beginning.

From this, Shi Tuo determined that the strength of this old man should be not bad.

Skimming over a hill and seeing the crutches begin to descend, Shi Tuo knew that the location of the sect had arrived.

Falling to the ground, Shi Tuo's feet were a little fluttering, this was his first trip to the sky. Seeing a courtyard in the distance, he followed Old Man Mi to go with him.

It's just that as the distance closes, Shi Tuo saw the rot and holes in the wooden gatehouse of the courtyard, and saw the dilapidated courtyard.

In the center of the wooden gatehouse, there is a plaque with three big characters written "Dan Caotang". Shi Tuo muttered in his heart: This is Dancaotang? This is the sect I want to join?

Shi Tuo began to understand a little why those sects looked down on Dan Caotang so much. The dilapidated doorway alone proves the decline of Dancaotang.

However, Shi Tuo doesn't care about this, his goal now is not to enter any good sect. Instead, they simply wanted to find a place to learn the way to cultivate. Therefore, he will not be harsh on the scale of Dan Caotang.

The courtyard of Dan Thatched Cottage is located in a basin, and its gate and back door each face this hill. On both sides of the gate, weeds more than a meter tall grow.

Crunch!

Old Man Mi was on crutches in his left hand, and his right hand pushed open the door of the Dan Cao Hall, and the old wooden door issued a solemn statement protesting against Old Man Mi's behavior. At the same time, the wooden door slowly closes automatically, as if it had been fitted with a spring.

However, the protest was ineffective, and the old man said, "Come in." ”

Shi Tuo slapped it out with one hand and pushed the wooden door that was about to be completely closed again.

"Smack, grunt, squeak—"

"Don't push so hard, it's all old bones, and you want to use it for a few more years!" Old Man Mi heard the scream from the wooden door, and knew that Shi Tuo used too much force.

When Shi Tuo heard this, he had to turn around and gently close the wooden door that was slowly closing automatically, so as to prevent it from making a "bang" sound when it closed automatically.

"Come out, come out! There's a new person here!" said Old Man Mickey, standing still in the courtyard, into the room.

Shi Tuo stood behind Old Man Mi and looked around. Only then did I find out that Dan Caotang was actually in a dilapidated courtyard.

Directly opposite the courtyard is a main hall with a large stove in the middle of it. Shi Tuo didn't know much about the stove either. I only know that the black stove is not garbage, and it is definitely not as good as the gossip furnace of Taishang Laojun. On the wall behind the large stove, there hangs a portrait of a middle-aged man, handsome and dusty.

In addition to these two things, there are only some ordinary objects such as tables and chairs in the main hall. On either side of the main hall, there are three rooms each.

At this moment, from one of the rooms on the left, two pigtailed children, about twelve or thirteen years old, ran out.

When the child saw Old Man Mi coming back, he immediately shouted, "Hello Master!" At the same time, two pairs of big eyes kept looking at Shi Tuo who was standing behind Old Man Mi.

And in a room on the other side of the main hall, a woman of eighteen or nineteen also walked out.

The woman was wearing a yellow cloth shirt, with a melon seed face, a bright smile, two small dimples, and when she saw the old man, she also shouted with a smile: "Master, you are back!"

For a while, there were five people standing in the courtyard with Shi Tuo.

Shi Tuo looked at both sides, thinking that someone would come out. As a result, I waited for a long time and found that there was still no movement.

"Don't look at it, Dan Caotang is just these individuals, Jin Er and Mu Er are a pair of brothers I picked up six years ago, and Xiao Tao is what I picked up ten years ago. Old man Mi saw Shi Tuo looking left and right, understood Shi Tuo's thoughts, and explained.

When Shi Tuo heard this, he felt that the sect he joined, except for this old man Mi, the rest of the people were picked up by him, and there were only five people including himself.

A sect of five people, this is also a sect? And such a sect, he seems to be the first disciple to join, Shi Tuo was a little speechless for a while.

"Do you think that the scale of Dancaotang is too small, and you feel that you have been fooled?" Old Man Mi knew what Shi Tuo was thinking and asked.

Shi Tuo didn't want to hide this, and nodded to Old Man Mi, he really felt that he had been cheated. Even, at this time, he wondered if this old man had any other intentions, and whether he could teach himself to cultivate.

"Alas, in fact, although the scale here is small, but alchemy is not simple! It's a pity that Xiao Tao's spiritual root attributes are not right, and they can't pass on alchemy to them.

And I don't want my master's good alchemy to be lost to me. Otherwise, I wouldn't have to go out to collect apprentices. Old man Mi looked at Shi Tuo, and then stared at the portrait in the main hall and said.

"So my spiritual root is very suitable for alchemy?" Shi Tuo was a little moved when he heard this.

Old man Mi stared at Shi Tuo, his face showed a trace of strangeness, and when he saw Shi Tuo's face, he was still vaguely excited, only to know that Shi Tuo really didn't know anything about cultivation.

"Alas, not very good, but very bad!" said Old Man Mickey with a sigh.

Shi Tuo was a little inexplicable, very bad? Then he also said that he was not suitable for the ordinary cultivation path, but suitable for being an auxiliary cultivator.

"Actually, your qualifications are just too bad, too miscellaneous. Even if someone else's spiritual root is poor, it will only have four or five attributes at most. And your spiritual roots, metal, wood, water, fire, earth, ice, thunder, and wind are all together.

In addition, there are two unknown attributes. With so many attributes, the speed at which you advance will be greatly reduced. I really don't understand how a freak like you was born on the Tianyan Continent. ”

Old Man Mi explained, while examining Shi Tuo like a monster. Shi Tuo slandered: It seems that I really wasn't born in your Tianyan Continent.

At this time, Shi Tuo realized that a color on the ball before represented an attribute. Moreover, the more spiritual root attributes, the better, but the more single attribute spiritual roots, the faster they can be cultivated.

"Since the spiritual root of a single attribute is more suitable for ordinary cultivation. So what are the requirements for the spiritual root in the cultivation of alchemy?" Shi Tuo asked Old Man Mi again, he didn't understand why Old Man Mi said that he was also bad as an alchemist.

"As an alchemist, it is generally required that the spiritual root has two properties: fire attribute and wood attribute. Other than that, it's best not to have other attributes. So, you understand, right?" said Old Man Mi as he looked at Shi Tuo.

When Shi Tuo heard this, he understood that he had lost on the superfluous attribute again. He didn't understand how a pure thief like himself could have such miscellaneous attributes, wouldn't this be completely contrary to his desire to cultivate quickly?

"However, in the improvement of alchemy, in addition to the spiritual root attributes, the individual's comprehension ability is also very important. Therefore, as an auxiliary cultivator, there is one more possibility than if you take the ordinary cultivation path. Old man Mi saw that Shi Tuo's expression seemed to be slightly depressed, and added.

In fact, there was one more thing he didn't say, that is, the purer the wood spirit root, the stronger the affinity for medicinal materials, and the faster it could be perceived. And the reason why he accepted Shi Tuo as an apprentice was actually a dead horse as a live horse doctor. However, he didn't want Shi Tuo to lose confidence at this time.

After saying this, Old Man Mi also sighed, although he had participated in the sect many times in the past few years, he had found nothing.

This time, I finally found such a freak as Shi Tuo, so I accepted an apprentice and made do with it. As for how much Shi Tuo can master the alchemy he taught, he can only take one step at a time.

And Shi Tuo, after knowing his own situation, felt that he was not qualified to ask for anything, so he decided to join this sect and make do with it.

Under the improvisation of the two parties, Shi Tuo officially worshipped this old man Mi as his teacher, joined the Dancaotang, and became the only official successor of the alchemy of the Dancaotang.

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Shi Tuo got a book of cultivation exercises from Old Man Mi, called "Aoki Jue", which was suitable for Dan Xiu's cultivation.

He flipped through the first part of the Aoki recipe over and over again, then memorized it and then went into meditation.

Sure enough, after about five minutes, just as Old Man Mi said, a meridian operation diagram appeared in Shi Tuo's mind.

It is said that after seeing this picture, you should first concentrate your spirit on the dantian, to feel a breath of qi, and then press this qi according to the meridian operation chart, and push it week by week, and each push week is called a week.

When Shi Tuo was exploring the healing function of the young shoots, he had already mastered that qi, and at this time, he naturally directly controlled the air flow and ran according to the meridian diagram.

Although there was a sense of blockage, Shi Tuo felt that his air flow seemed to be stronger than the trickle mentioned in Aoki's trickle, so it took less time, and it took two hours to complete the first week's run.

At this time, Shi Tuo felt refreshed all over his body, and the pores of his whole body seemed to be breathing. And he seems to be more sensitive to the fragrance of the plants and flowers around him.

Shi Tuo secretly said the magic of this "Aoki Jue". At the same time, he also remembered the "Chaos Heavenly Formula" in his mind, and he didn't know this exercise, so what about it?