Chapter 22: The Elders of the Zhou Family
On the Hundred Medicine Peak, just as Zhou Chun was looking at the various elixir seedlings in the elixir garden, he thought of the lack of knowledge in some aspects of the Zhou family.
A young man in a blue-gray robe suddenly walked out of the hall in front of him.
The young man was slightly shorter than Zhou Chun, about one meter seven or eight, probably because he had been by the fire for a long time, and his complexion was also darker and redder, like a blacksmith in the world.
After he came out of the hall, he beckoned to Zhou Chun with a smile on his face and said, "Thirteenth brother, the teacher already knows your intentions, come with me to visit his old man." ”
When Zhou Chun heard this, he immediately thanked him: "There is Sixth Brother Lao." ”
It turned out that this young man was also a disciple of the Zhou family's "Zheng" character, ranked sixth, named Zhou Zhengyuan, and he followed Zhou Mingshan, the great elder of the Zhou family, to learn alchemy skills eight years ago.
Therefore, don't look at him as inconspicuous, in fact, his status in the Zhou family is very high, not even worse than some core clansmen.
After Zhou Chun followed Zhou Zhengyuan into the palace at this time, he soon came to a hall, where he met Zhou Mingshan, the great elder of the Zhou family.
Because there are not many longevity yuan, Zhou Mingshan looks as gray-haired as an old man at the moment, his face is full of wrinkles, and he is old-fashioned.
After Zhou Chun came in and finished saluting, he just raised his eyes slightly to look at the young junior, and then said softly: "Since the patriarch asked you to come over to receive the medicine, the old man will naturally obey the patriarch's orders." ”
After speaking, he instructed Zhou Zhengyuan, who was accompanying him: "Zhengyuan, you go and fetch the medicine for him." ”
"The disciple obeys."
Zhou Zhengyuan responded, and immediately went to the pharmacy behind the pill to take a bottle of [Chunyang Pill] and three bottles of [Beast Spirit Pill] and handed them to Zhou Chun.
After Zhou Chun took the pill and verified it in person, Zhou Mingshan waved his hand and signaled that he could leave.
I didn't want Zhou Chun to act as if he didn't see his signal, but after collecting the pill, he bowed to him again and said, "Elder Mingjian, there is still a spiritual object here that the junior wants to ask the elder to help with his palm." ”
Hearing Zhou Chun's words, Zhou Mingshan couldn't help but tremble, but he didn't refuse, just raised his eyes and looked at him and said lightly: "Oh, what spiritual thing?" Take it out and let the old man see it. ”
"It's a hundred-year-old ginseng, and it's something that the younger generation got from a bandit cultivator."
Zhou Chun said, and took out the wild ginseng he had bought from the stall market in Hongyafang City.
He had always thought that he would have a chance to go to Fang Market again in the future, and then find a chance to sell this thing.
However, the encounter on the trip to Wild Wolf Ridge made Zhou Chun realize that he should improve his cultivation as soon as possible.
This immortal cultivation world is not safe everywhere, the cultivation is not enough, the strength is not strong, and you may lose your life if you go out casually.
Therefore, everything that can be used to cash out as soon as possible should be used as soon as possible to enhance strength.
At this time, after Zhou Mingshan took the wild spirit ginseng handed over by Zhou Zhengyuan, he looked at it for a while, and then said with a slight bow: "Well, the quality is not bad, it looks like it should be more than one hundred and thirty years old, and it can be used as the main medicine for refining [Chunyang Pill]." ”
Is it only more than 130 years old?
Zhou Chun was suddenly a little disappointed in his heart.
Naturally, he would not doubt Zhou Mingshan's eyesight, so it must have been the old man who sold medicine at the beginning who exaggerated the age of medicine.
But this is a common situation in the world of cultivating immortals, buying things on the stall market, the seller is okay no matter how he brags, and he doesn't have to be responsible for his boasting.
When buying things in the stall market, the real test is the buyer's eyesight, once the eyes are gone, then there is no return.
The wild ginseng that Zhou Chun bought is not a fake, but the effect is not as strong as the seller boasted, and he still earns it.
Therefore, after a short period of loss, he quickly cheered up and looked at Zhou Mingshan and said, "The younger generation wants to dedicate this thing to the family, I wonder if the elder can exchange this medicine for this thing?" ”
When Zhou Mingshan heard this, he groaned slightly, then nodded slightly: "Centennial Spirit Ginseng, the market price should be more than sixty spirit coins, and one [Chunyang Pill] is worth twenty spirit coins, if it is exchanged for an elixir, the old man can give you three [Chunyang Pill] in exchange." ”
But he didn't bother to ask Zhou Chun how he got this wild ginseng.
This made Zhou Chun, who had thought of several reasons, depressed and happy in his heart.
"Then the junior thanked the elder first."
Zhou Chun gave a salute and immediately agreed.
Soon after, Zhou Chun bid farewell to Zhou Mingshan and Zhou Zhengyuan's master and apprentice, and returned to Baozhi Peak.
Back at his residence, Zhou Chundang took out all the pills he had brought.
There were five in one bottle of [Chunyang Dan], and he exchanged three more with wild spirit ginseng, which was eight.
[Beast Spirit Pill] is ten pills in one bottle, and three bottles are thirty pills.
Zhou Chun had also fed the [Beast Spirit Pill] to the Rock Turtle before, and knew how to feed it to maximize the effect.
Therefore, at this time, he directly fed three [Beast Spirit Pills] to the rock and soil turtle at one time, and then let it enter the turtle breath state, and slowly digested the medicinal power.
He himself walked into the cultivation retreat room, took out a [Chunyang Pill] and took it.
The thumb-sized yellow-brown pill was swallowed into his mouth, and a faint smell of honey sweetness and Chinese medicine filled his mouth.
Zhou Chun squirmed his throat and swallowed the unmelted pill in his stomach, and then silently ran the practice method of the "Five Qi Chaoyang Sutra", and practiced with the help of medicinal power.
This practice is a completely different feeling from the usual meditation practice.
Usually swallowing the aura of heaven and earth to meditate and practice, the aura of heaven and earth is like a marshmallow, it looks like a lot, but in fact, there is very little spiritual power that can be converted into mana cultivation after refining.
However, the pure medicinal power contained in [Chunyang Pill] is as dense as mercury, extremely high quality, and very easy to absorb and refine.
It took Zhou Chun almost three days to completely refine the medicinal power of a [Chunyang Pill].
And it was this [Chunyang Pill] that directly saved him two or three months of cultivation time and helped him break through a trick point.
This powerful medicinal effect made Zhou Chun surprised and delighted.
He seemed to see a shortcut to quickly improve his cultivation!
"It's no wonder that the four major immortal cultivation skills of the Dan Weapon Rune Array, the Dan Pill are at the forefront!"
"If you don't consider the particularity of the Pure Spirit Array, for immortal cultivators, the effect of the elixir is indeed far more important than the magic weapon, magic rune, and magic circle!"
Zhou Chun couldn't help but feel that he had a deeper understanding of the importance of the elixir.
However, although the pill is good, it should not be greedily taken.
Although the elixir can save a lot of time for immortal cultivators to meditate and cultivate, no matter how skilled the alchemist is, he cannot completely remove the poison existing in the elixir.
Therefore, even if an ordinary immortal cultivator is the same as Zhou Chun, he has obtained several pills at one time, he does not dare to take the pills in a short period of time, so as not to accumulate poison and cause irreparable damage to the body.
According to the research and experiments of the senior monks, pills like [Chunyang Pill] that are suitable for monks in the middle and late stages of Qi refining, and the monks in the middle stage of Qi refining take one every month or two, so they don't have to worry about the damage of the poison.
Therefore, although Zhou Chun still had seven [Chunyang Pills] in his hand at this time, he did not continue to take the medicine.
On the other hand, the demon beast spirit pet has very little scruples in this regard, it should be because the demon beast has a strong physique, and it is on the road of blood sublimation, and its ability to self-eliminate the poison far exceeds that of human immortal cultivators.
After a few more days passed in this way, Zhou Chun had free time on this day, and then went to Feishi Peak again.
This time when he came to Feishi Peak, Zhou Chun did not go to the library to read, but made a special trip to meet Zhou Daoquan, the third elder of the Zhou family.
The three elders of the Zhou family each have a unique skill.
Great Elder Zhou Mingshan's alchemy skills are excellent, and most of the Zhou family's pills come from him.
The second elder Zhou Chongshan was proficient in formations, and he once studied under a Purple Mansion monk of the Formation You family, and the Zhou family's mountain protection array and spirit purification array were all arranged by him.
The third elder Zhou Daoquan inherited the Zhou family's beast control technique, and his attainments in the beast control technique directly caught up with the Supreme Elder Zhou Mingde, and he cultivated two second-order spirit pets alone.
And the patriarch Zhou Daoyi is also said to have a good talisman making technique, and his attainments in the art of beast control are only behind the third elder Zhou Daoquan.
Zhou Chun came to Feishi Peak to meet the Third Elder Zhou Daoquan this time, just to ask him to help take a look at the mysterious snake egg that he got from the Mu family at that time, and to see if this beast master knew what the situation of that egg was.
"Oh, how can there be such a miracle? Take out the snake egg and look at it. ”
On the Flying Stone Peak, Zhou Daoquan met with Zhou Chun, and after listening to what he said, he suddenly showed a look of surprise and surprise, and even asked him to take out the snake egg.
"Elder, please see."
Zhou Chun stretched out his hand and patted the storage bag, took out the jade box containing the snake eggs, and handed it to Zhou Daoquan with both hands.
I saw Zhou Daoquan take out the snake egg and put it in his hand, first closed his eyes and released his divine sense to investigate, and then pinched the magic trick in his hand, and successively used several secret techniques that Zhou Chun knew or did not know to test and identify the snake egg.
"It's weird, this is the first time I've seen something like this!"
Looking at the snake egg in his hand with a frown, Zhou Daoquan thought about it, then looked at Zhou Chun and said: "This snake egg is indeed very valuable for research, if you agree, put it here first, and the old man will conduct research and experiments on it." ”
"If the old man can figure out a way to hatch it, he will naturally let you come over and accept the contract when the time comes."
"If it is damaged due to the old man's research, the old man will pay you five hundred spirit coins, what do you think?"
Such a good thing, Zhou Chun naturally will not disagree.
He immediately agreed: "Elder, although you can rest assured to study, the junior will never have any opinions. ”
Zhou Daoquan was also very satisfied with his answer, and immediately nodded and said, "Well, then you can step back first, and the old man will inform you when you have the result." ”
"Yes, the junior is retiring."
Zhou Chun saluted, and left Feishi Peak.