Chapter Twenty-Three: Medicine Valley
Just by a glance, Li Qing knew that this old man was that Huang Lao, so he hurriedly stepped forward and said respectfully. "Outer disciple Li Qing has seen Huang senior."
"You said there was a letter to the old man?" Huang Lao didn't seem to appreciate it, and asked nonchalantly.
"Yes, please take a look at the old man Huang." Li Qing didn't explain, but directly took out the letter written by Elder Liang Kuan from his arms and presented it with both hands.
"What is this kid doing, since he has come back, what can't he come over and say in person?" Huang Lao's face was a little unhappy, and he took the envelope and opened it on the spot.
However, this look at Huang Lao's face became extremely complicated, and after a moment of silence, he said in a stiff tone. "Liang Kuan's letter said that you can refine the elixir?"
"Only some basic pills will be refined." Hearing Huang Lao's inquiry, Li Qing knew that it was related to whether he could learn alchemy with the other party in the future, so he didn't dare to exaggerate the facts.
"Specifically, what are they?" Huang Lao was not satisfied with this answer, and asked again.
"They are all first-order pills, such as Rejuvenation Pill and Peiyuan Pill...... and so on. Li Qing reported seven or eight kinds of pills in one go, but his tone was not very confident when he said these pills.
Because Li Qing knew that these pills were all basic pills in the first-order pills, and he didn't think that refining these pills would enter Huang Lao's eyes.
Sure enough, as soon as Li Qing's words fell, he heard Huang Lao ask. "Is that all? The Qi Gathering Pill can't be refined? ”
"Back to Huang Lao, the disciple has only collected the pills of these few pills, so ......" Li Qing looked ashamed, but it was the truth. At that time, he was only able to collect these widely circulated Danfangs.
As for the Qi Gathering Pill, which can assist in cultivation, don't even think about it.
Huang Lao was not satisfied when he heard this, and then asked Li Qing several questions one after another, until he heard that Li Qing's success rate in refining pills could be maintained at five or six percent, and he was a little surprised.
However, Li Qing has no bottom in his heart, he is only from a wild road for alchemy, and his foundation is too thin. It may not be able to meet Huang Lao's requirements. In particular, this quiet atmosphere made him feel even more apprehensive.
After waiting for a long time, Li Qing heard Huang Lao speak. Since Liang Kuan spoke, the old man would not refuse.
However, the old man will not accept disciples, and will only occasionally give you a point or two. ”
"Disciple understands!" Li Qing was a little regretful when he heard this, but he still replied respectfully.
"In that case, from today onwards, you will come to the Medicine Valley once every five days. In the morning, I will help the old man take care of the elixir in the spiritual field, and in the afternoon I will instruct you to make alchemy. "Huang Lao
"Disciple understands!" Li Qing breathed a sigh of relief when he heard this, although he couldn't worship under the other party's door, it was not bad to have this result.
"Come with me." Huang Lao turned around and walked towards the house behind him.
Li Qing also followed Huang Lao into the house closely.
The house was simply furnished, with only a few chairs for reception and two bookshelves against the wall, but the whole room was filled with the fragrance of elixir.
Huang Lao walked to the bookshelf, stretched out his hand to pick out a few books from the pile of books, turned around and returned to Li Qing, and handed the books to Li Qingdao. "Here are ten articles on grass and trees, take them back and take a look at them first.
When will you memorize the ten articles of plants and trees, know all the elixirs in the Medicine Valley, and know their characteristics and habits. The old man will start instructing you to refine the elixir at any time. ”
"Thank you, Elder Huang." Li Qing took the book with both hands and said.
Understand that this is Huang Lao's test for himself, and understand these elixirs in the Medicine Valley clearly in order to take care of the Lingtian according to the characteristics of different elixirs.
Li Qing guessed that if he couldn't even make this request, Huang Lao would probably not mention alchemy again.
Then Huang Lao wanted to come, and Li Qing's identity token was thrown back after fiddling for a while. "In the future, you can use this token to enter and exit the Medicine Valley."
After speaking, Li Qing, who didn't care about his bewildered face, turned around and went to another room.
Standing in place stunned for a long time, Li Qing finally turned around and walked out of the house.
However, he did not leave the medicine valley, but went to the spiritual field to look through the ten articles of plants and trees that he had just arrived, and compared them one by one to find the same pages as the elixirs planted in the spiritual field and memorized them one by one.
After walking around this circle, Li Qing was surprised to find that there were hundreds of elixirs planted in this medicine valley, many of which were cherished.
Even Li Qing saw a purple monkey flower, although there was no pill formula, Li Qing also knew that it was one of the elixirs for refining the Zhuji Dan.
Because the major pill shops in Donglingfang City have purchased it, each purple monkey flower can be sold for thousands of lower-grade spirit stones, and they are almost able to catch up with the price of a high-grade magic weapon.
However, in front of Li Qing's eyes, there were more than a dozen purple monkey flowers in the Lingtian, and the elixir worth nearly 10,000 spiritual stones was thriving in the Lingtian
Thinking that he was going to look at such a large piece of spiritual field next, Li Qing couldn't help but dry his lips, and his heart became inexplicably hot.
Fortunately, Li Qingdao's heart was quite firm, and it took some time to calm down and did not do anything embarrassing.
Continue to compare the contents recorded in the ten articles of grass and trees, and wait for Li Qing to return to the starting place again after all the elixirs are numbered.
However, this time he did not take out the ten articles of plants and trees to check, but identified them one by one according to the memories just now, and then compared the ten memories of plants and trees with unclear memories of the omissions.
After going back and forth like this five or six times, Li Qing could barely recognize the elixir in the Medicine Valley.
I believe that if you continue to deepen your memory in the next period of time, you will be able to fully understand these elixirs.
But it's one thing to know the elixir, it's another thing to take care of the elixir.
Li Qing had also planted some elixirs before, and knew that the growth environment and preferences of different elixirs were different. Only by taking care of the characteristics of each elixir will there be no mistakes.
Otherwise, it is very likely that the elixir will not be able to adapt to the environment and wither and die.
On this day, Li Qing spent the day in identifying the elixir and understanding the habits of the elixir, and it was not until the evening that he said goodbye to Huang Lao and left the Medicine Valley to return to Xiaoqianfeng.
However, when Li Qing returned to the cave mansion located in Xiaoqianfeng, he found several outer disciples standing outside the cave mansion waiting.
Li Qing was puzzled in his heart, there were not many people he knew in the sect, most of them still knew each other in the Lingshi Mine, and they could only be said to have a face.
There were a few outer disciples standing in front of the cave mansion, and he didn't know anyone.
At first, Li Qing thought that other outer disciples living in Zuojin Cave Mansion had come to visit, but upon closer inspection, he found that this was not the case.
Because only one young man stood in front of his cave with an unhappy face, and the others were a little farther away, looking like they were watching the excitement.
This is not like a friendly visit between disciples, but a trouble to find the door. But I only officially started yesterday, and I almost didn't have any intersection with others, so where did this trouble come from?
Li Qing frowned and thought about it, but after recalling it carefully, he still didn't feel that he had offended anyone in anything.
But...... Li Qing glanced at the cave behind the young man and seemed to have an understanding, isn't it because of this reason?
If it was because of this question, he really couldn't avoid it, so he hesitated for a moment Li Qing stepped on the Liuyun Sword and landed steadily in front of the cave, and asked the other party. "In Xia Li Qing, I don't know if this senior brother has something to inquire about after waiting in front of my cave mansion for a long time."