Volume 1 Earth Chapter 41 The First Trial of the Pill
Ning Ke and Lin Lan followed Yu Jun to his office.
As soon as he entered Dean Yu's office, Ning Ke was attracted by a casserole-like Dan furnace on the lattice shelf. Immediately after releasing the divine sense, I saw that the spirit runes engraved on the outer wall of the Dan furnace seemed to be alive, reflecting a dynamic spiritual light, this is not a mortal thing!
Of course, it is difficult for a person without divine consciousness to see this kind of aura on the Dan furnace.
"Good furnace!"
Ning Ke walked to the Dan furnace in three steps and two steps, took off the Dan furnace with trembling hands, and didn't know what to say for a while.
"I don't know about the Dan furnace, I once asked an expert to identify it, and the expert said that this Dan furnace was at least before the Tang Dynasty. Look at the inscription here......"
Dean Yu Jun pointed to the seal characters on the Dan furnace and showed it to Ning Ke.
Ning Ke had already learned some knowledge of alchemy from the jade slips, and he also had some understanding of the Dan furnace.
"'Tushi Baji Furnace', it's too precious......"
Ning Ke looked at the inscription on the Dan furnace and explained: "'Tushi' is the name of the place, the legend is the palace of Taishang Laojun, and 'Baji' is the name of this furnace. This is a kettle, which is equivalent to a casserole pot for boiling medicine, and there is no bottom hall for filling with fuel......"
Ning Ke looked at Dean Yu and said with emotion: "Dean Yu, the Dan furnace is just an ornament for you, and it is a treasure of great use to me." I don't have any money, how about I exchange an ancient jade bottle with you?......"
Ning Ke said and took out a jade bottle he got from Tianmu Mountain and handed it to Dean Yu.
"The jade bottle carved from Qinghua jade at the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty has a history of nearly 2,000 years...... "Ning Ke gave a brief introduction to the jade bottle.
Dean Yu stared at the jade bottle, handed it back to Ning Ke, looked at Lin Lan and muttered and said:
"The Dan furnace is the collection of the hospital, I personally have no right to give it to you, this needs to be studied by the board of directors, but you can borrow it...... Old man Su Feng wants you to set up a consultation room in our Yu Su Hall, this is a good thing! I completely agree and support it.
"Although Mr. Su Feng is one of the major shareholders of our hospital, the employment contract still has to be signed. You see, let's let the secretary prepare the contract now, and I'll handle your medical certificate.
"Of course, when the time comes, there is usually a medical qualification exam in late October every year, and you have to take an exam, which will be a piece of cake for you! I know you're still studying, so let's talk about the number of visits per week depending on the situation......"
"Is this appropriate?" Ning Ke looked at Lin Lan.
Lin Lan listened to Dean Yu Jun's proposal, and saw that Ning Ke asked for her opinion, of course she agreed.
The Ning family is too poor! Ning Ke was lucky to be able to get such an errand.
The secretary prepared the contract, and Ning Ke signed an employment contract with Yu Sutang.
Soon, the first order came.
"Can you cure Alzheimer's disease?"
Dean Yu Jun has been having a headache recently, and his father has recently become more and more serious with Alzheimer's disease. Not only is there a problem in cognition, but the key is to tinker with Chinese herbal medicine every day, saying that it is to refine the elixir of life.
Most of the formulas used are ancient recipes, such as the highly toxic Salmeral, realgar, Tantra monks, etc., which are all over the house, making the house full of the smell of medicinal herbs. It's nothing, what worries people is that the old man personally tests the medicine from time to time!
"It should be possible, as long as Sun Simiao's 'Kong Sheng Pillow Zhongdan' is added with a few more flavors of medicinal materials and carefully refined, it should be able to have miraculous effects. Give me a little time, I want to solve Alzheimer's disease. ”
"Oh...... It's worth looking forward to. I am a private person who asked you for medical treatment, and my father has been suffering from Alzheimer's disease for nearly eight years. Although many of my family members have been from the apricot forest for several generations, there is no good way to slow down the progression of the disease. I'm a little embarrassed to make that request when you just came here today. I'll give you 100,000 yuan for the consultation fee first, I know that your treatment is not as simple as it seems, if the course of treatment is longer, I will add some more consultation fees, what do you think?"
"Forget about the consultation fee, I need a lot of medicinal materials to practice alchemy. Do you think this will work? Yu Sutang's medicinal materials are free for me to use, and if I lack some medicinal materials, I hope that the hospital will try its best to help me purchase them. ”
"These are two different things, and the consultation fee I am talking about is the fee I should pay for you to treat the patient personally. In fact, our institute has hundreds of millions of scientific research funds every year, and I don't care about the medicinal materials you learn alchemy. However, each time the medicinal materials are collected, they must be registered in detail, and the competent leaders need to report for approval when they receive precious and rare medicinal materials. Of course, if you get anything from practicing alchemy, you can only sell it to the outside world in the name of Yu Sutang, and we will handle the specific profit distribution in accordance with the regulations of the hospital.
"It's not for you personally, our hospital has new products launched every year, and the profits of the products are linked to scientific researchers. Yu Sutang's pharmaceutical factory is in the suburban industrial park, and the medicinal materials in the preparation room you see are only the tip of the iceberg.
"Of course, we don't interfere with the drugs used by individual patients, and we only do the drugs that are mass-produced. ”
"Oh, if the prescription passed down by my master is taken out, it will also be counted as Yu Sutang's?"
"No, the medicine passed down by your master can be sold or converted into shares and entered Yu Su Hall. ”
Ning Ke figured out some of Yu Sutang's regulations, and felt that there were advantages and disadvantages for him. Now it is imperative to seize the time to learn alchemy and make self-defense jade talismans, who knows when which monks, Taoist priests, and shamans will come to find their own trouble?
Ning Ke stayed in Yusu Hall that night to practice alchemy.
I thought that alchemy only needed to prepare medicinal materials and Dan furnaces, and then refine it according to the Dan formula, but as soon as he started refining, he was stunned.
He put the Dan furnace on a high-power electric stove to heat it, and tried dozens of furnaces of "Vitality Pill" in a row, only to get a bunch of grass and wood ash-like paste, how can there be a shadow of the Dan pill?!
Lin Lan didn't change her clothes for a few days and went home. The staff of the Chinese medicine pharmacy also went home early from work, and only his lonely shadow was left in the preparation room except for the staff on duty who were sleeping soundly.
Ning Ke was a little discouraged, it was the first time since he had cultivated that he had suffered such a big setback. "Vitality Pill" and "Kong Sheng Pillow Zhongdan" both belong to the second-grade elixir, which is considered a low-end elixir, far from reaching the grade of the medium-grade elixir.
From the perspective of cultivation, the elixir has the effect of improving cultivation and perfecting oneself.
The medicine pill is just a medicine for ordinary mortals to cure diseases, and it is divided into nine grades from one to nine grades like the elixir.
According to the purity, appearance, and flawlessness of each grade of elixir, the pills of each grade are divided into three sub-levels: low, medium, and high.
There are slight differences in the efficacy of different small levels of pills of the same grade, and there are also some slight differences in the effect of taking them.
Some high-level elixirs are able to refine flawless, high-quality elixirs, and sometimes give this elixir the title of superb.
Of course, even the best medicinal pill of the ninth grade can only be said to be close to the elixir, but it is far from the elixir, which is very different from the quality.
The three pills that Ning Ke once took, the "Qi" word pill and the Zhuyan Pill that Lin Lan took belonged to the three-grade elixir, the "body" word pill reached the seven-grade elixir, and the "Zhi" word pill belonged to the nine-grade elixir!
Strictly speaking, the medicine pill cannot be counted as a pill, only the magic medicine can be counted as a pill, and the elixir can be counted as a pill.
In modern times, alchemists are becoming more and more rare, and those who can refine medicinal pills are also called Danshi. In the past, only those who could refine the elixir could be called a Dan Master, and in modern times, those who could refine the elixir were called the Great Dan Master or the Ling Dan Master.
The grade of the Dan Master is the same as the level of the pill refined, if you can refine the three-grade elixir, you will be the third-grade elixir, if you can refine the five-grade elixir, you will be the fifth-grade elixir, and if you can refine the seven-grade elixir, you will have a more respectful title - the elixir master.
According to the historical records of the Taoists, the Dan family, or the side doors, there has never been a person who can refine the nine-grade elixir, so there is no need to subdivide the elixir masters above the seventh-grade elixir, and they are collectively called elixir masters.
Ning Ke faintly felt that his fairy master was either a hidden master or a legendary immortal. The elixir she left for herself also corroborated this speculation.
What's more, she has not shown up and has not heard from her for all these years, so she can only be explained in this way.
Ning Ke had just turned seventeen years old dozens of hours ago, and he was the age of a newborn calf, so how could he take this breath? He also found the medicinal materials of the "Kong Sheng Pillow Zhongdan" and tried it, and he didn't know how many furnaces he had refined, but he still only got some ashes.
This night, when he was tired of refining, he read the scriptures on the alchemy on the jade slip, and when he was tired of reading, he continued to try.
He was busy until dawn, and he was a little helpless. He added some honey to the Dan furnace and tried several times to get a few brown "medicine" pills the size of a dragon's eye.
He smiled bitterly, can this be regarded as a medicinal pill?—— just honey-bonded medicinal residue ashes!
I think that the "Confucius Pillow Zhongdan" refined by the students of the Philosophy Department of Qiantang University is also this kind of thing.
During this night's trial, he realized what others said, "It is difficult to refine a Dan even if you exhaust your head".
He used his mobile phone to search for some pills left by the Tang Dynasty medical saint Sun Simiao, and when he saw that all of them were medicinal pills, he guessed that Sun Simiao might not have stepped into the hall of the elixir master or his elixir recipe had not been handed down.
He wasted an unknown number of medicinal materials this night, but he couldn't even refine the lowest-end medicinal pill, let alone the elixir.
Sister Lan is still counting on him to refine the word "qi" to produce true qi, I'm afraid I don't know what to do if I have to wait until my hair turns gray?
It seems that the road of cultivation is long, and the path of the Dan path is difficult to find!
Alchemy is not something that can be achieved overnight, he didn't have a master to teach him, he relied on his own slow exploration, how could it be so easy? !
There happened to be a physician qualification exam in October, and Ning Ke agreed with Dean Yu Jun that as long as he got the doctor's qualification certificate, he would officially go to work in Yu Sutang and sit for a day every Saturday.
Ning Ke said goodbye to Dean Yu, and only found that he was penniless when he left Yu Sutang. Looking at the pedestrians on the street, he first walked quickly, and then ran back to Linwei.
As soon as I arrived at the door of the house, I saw a man in a Taoist robe sitting on the spot, waiting at the door of his house.
The person meditating in front of the door is none other than Master Gong.
"Master Gong, have all the things of the Tianyan Group been handled?"
"It's all in order, they'll contact me if there's anything going on. The little disciple is now wholeheartedly following Master and learning the Tao ......"
Ning Ke asked Master Gong to call him by his name, but Master Gong didn't do it.
Master Gong took out a bank card and handed it to Ning Ke, "Master, this is a little bit of heart from Mr. Qian, you have made a great contribution to the incident in this prefabrication factory...... The PIN for this card is the last six digits of your phone number. ”
Ning Ke took the bank card, pursed his lips thoughtfully, nodded, and put it into the storage ring casually. I wondered if I deserved this money, should I return it?......
"Master, are you wearing a storage ring on your hand?!"
Master Gong's face was full of amazement, as if he had seen the most precious thing in the world.
"yes, don't you have ?......"
Ning Ke asked casually, and he also felt that it was very inappropriate......