Chapter 5: Pill Pharmacist
The Dan pharmacist system is more important in this book, so I deliberately use a chapter to introduce it, if you don't like it, you can skip it, thank you!
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Dan Pharmacist, this is a high-end profession that serves everyone when the level is low, and only serves the warriors when the level is high.
The so-called high-end professions are naturally noble, and ordinary people must be in awe of them, not to mention that even warriors need to show enough respect for the same level of pill medicine masters.
The Dan Pharmacist was first developed by some doctors who were not talented enough in the medical Tao and were impatient to face patients every day and wanted to have a comfortable and quiet doctor.
Those who are new to the elixir are called pharmacists, and the pharmacists have all kinds of prescriptions with different effects, and they can extract the essence of the medicinal materials, and mix several kinds of dozens of medicinal essences in different proportions to prepare potions with miraculous effects.
Pharmacists' alchemy skills, the effectiveness of the prescriptions mastered, and the number of prescriptions make pharmacists superior and inferior, so pharmacists are divided into junior pharmacists, intermediate pharmacists, and senior pharmacists.
Under normal circumstances, the ruling family of a small city can only recruit intermediate pharmacists, and if you are strong or lucky enough, you will have to snicker if you have a senior pharmacist.
In fact, there is no clear boundary between pharmacists and physicians, pharmacists must be certified by physicians, even if they don't want to be doctors, they must understand certain medical theories and skills, and only after becoming a physician can they be qualified for pharmacist assessment.
A pharmacist who doesn't understand medical science and medicine at all is terrible, and it is just enough to kill himself, in case he refines something that he himself does not know what it is useful to harm the world.
Moreover, to become a pharmacist and go further on the path of a pharmacist, you need a large number of medicinal materials to continuously refine the pill and accumulate experience.
Physicians also study pharmacology and medicinal properties to prescribe the right medicine when encountering patients, so most of the time a pharmacist or physician is also a physician or pharmacist, but the focus will be different.
If you can insist on focusing on being a doctor for many years, helping the world and saving people, and finally become famous doctors and miracle doctors, you will be worshiped and admired by the general public, even powerful warriors and powerful people will respect their medical skills and benevolence.
When the pharmacist himself has some kind of powerful flame in his own cultivation, he can refine the elixir and refine it into a "Dan" that is far more powerful and magical than the potion, and the pharmacist will be promoted to become a Dan Master.
It is obviously impossible to master a powerful flame with the body of an ordinary person, so the Danshi must also be an extremely powerful warrior, and even often the warmaster has the ability to own and control his own flame, which can be imagined as the high-end of the Danshi.
When you arrive at Danshi, there is no doctor and part-time Danshi, no matter how powerful the famous doctor is, he can't compare with Danshi, and some are just Danshi and meditate in order to refine better and more magical pills.
Dan masters are too powerful and rare, cutting off the promotion path of most pharmacists, so there are some unwilling and capable pharmacists who try to master the ability to refine "Dan" from other ways.
After countless pharmacists, there was finally a pharmacist who guided the earth fire, used the earth fire to refine the elixir, and then used the alchemy ability comparable to the Dan master to refine it into a real Dan.
Because this kind of Dan is with the help of external forces, the earth fire is far less flexible than the flame mastered by itself, and the success rate of the pharmacists refining the Dan and the quality of the Dan are not small from the real Dan Master, but after all, it is indeed much stronger than the ordinary pharmacist, so later people called it the "Great Pharmacist" to show that it is higher than the pharmacist and lower than the Dan Master.
Human beings like to exaggerate themselves, and when they have the opportunity, they will do something similar or identical to their own high-end group to prove that they are also a high-end group or are approaching a high-end group.
Then he didn't extract the essence of the medicinal materials, he didn't refine the liquid medicine, but directly put the medicinal materials into the medicine tripod, mixed and condensed them, and then kneaded them into a pill, which was called "Dan"!
This kind of "Dan" because the medicinal materials have not been extracted, so that many useless and even harmful substances to the human body are mixed into the elixir, so the same amount of this fake Dan has much more poison than the elixir, and because the fake Dan contains a large amount of medicinal residues that make it more difficult to absorb and refine than the elixir, so in fact, the Dan refined by the pharmacist is a more inferior thing than the elixir, and compared with the real "Dan" refined with elixir, there is a world of difference:
The medicinal properties of the elixir are pure, and there is no such thing as residue, every minute of their body is full of medicinal power, in fact, even if there is residue, it will be burned into nothingness by the powerful flames of the Dan masters.
Fake pills are not as good as medicines, but there are still countless pharmacists who like alchemy, because alchemy is much simpler and easier than refining potions, and extracting the essence of medicinal materials is a rather cumbersome process, which means that alchemy is more efficient and has lower time costs.
Besides, it's alchemy, a high-end behavior that originally belonged to Dan masters, thinking about these two words is exciting, and the refined Dan is just absorbing more medicine and poison, what's the big deal, just eat the dead.
With the increasing number of pharmacists in alchemy, in the end, some people finally delayed their illness because they ate the pharmacist's pill and absorbed it too slowly, and the accumulation of drug poisons destroyed the body and lost their lives.
Once a pharmacist is found to have this kind of behavior, he will be deprived of his identity as a pharmacist for life, and he will not be allowed to take the exam again, or he will be killed on the spot!
Xingyang Palace's treatment is so severe, not only because this behavior of the pharmacists will put the lives of the sick and injured at risk, but also because if all the pharmacists go to alchemy and no one studies the potions seriously, then in the end, the potions will become weaker and weaker, and even one day they will completely disappear, and the consequences will be extremely serious.
As for some pill pill pharmacist organizations that assist in cultivation, they don't have much control:
First, cultivators are physically strong, their digestion and detoxification abilities are stronger, and the impact of pills or elixirs on them is relatively small, and those who are able to take pills to assist in cultivation will not be unable to soak in medicinal baths for detoxification;
Second, if you don't let the pharmacists alchemy at all, it will also cause a fierce backlash from the pharmacists, and it is better to let the pharmacists selectively alchemize, and if there are pharmacists who are promoted to the Dan masters, it can be regarded as accumulating experience in advance.
In the big city and even the bigger cities, because there are too many powerful warriors and even warriors and powerful figures, plus the large number of pharmacists, the identity and status of pharmacists are relatively weak.
Therefore, unless the elixir that assists cultivation in the big city is the real elixir refined by the Dan Master and the Great Pharmacist, it is basically a medicine, after all, even if the warriors and cultivators are physically strong and have better potions, no one wants to take the fake pills of the pharmacists.
And the smaller the city, the higher the status of the pharmacist, the less the cultivation pill in the dosage form, and it is basically difficult to see the medicine that assists cultivation in the small town, the most classic and famous body forging pill is actually a fake pill, if people from big cities want to buy a body forging potion in a small city, unless it is specially customized at a large price, most of them will not be able to buy it.