Nie Yun looked at the various medicinal liquids in front of him, his eyes closed slightly, and he carefully went through the process of condensing the Fire Spirit Pill in his mind.

"Let's get started." After a while, Nie Yun slowly opened his eyes, his hands lightly rested on the ice-blue Ding wall, and the milky white qi machine surged out, and the earth fire rose in vain, slowly wrapping the various medicinal liquids in the Ding, and gradually returned to one place under Nie Yun's control.

Because the main effect of the Fire Spirit Pill is to develop the function of the Fire Spirit Peach to the greatest extent, it is even more necessary to control those auxiliary medicinal materials, neither to make it noisy, nor to make it useless, which is a great test of the alchemist's subtle control of the medicinal properties.

A trace of cold sweat oozed from the corners of Nie Yun's forehead, and beads of sweat slid down all the way, dripping onto the cyan robe through his cheeks, forming a puddle of light brown marks, but he didn't realize it, his two eyes stared at the Ding Furnace, carefully controlling the fire.

Even though Nie Yun already had the experience of successfully refining the Fire Spirit Pill, he still didn't dare to be careless, after all, this... It's really expensive.

As time passed, the solemnity in Nie Yun's eyebrows gradually disappeared, a wisp of joy gradually climbed up to his eyebrows, and the pill in the ding gradually took shape.

Smack, I saw the corners of Nie Yun's mouth rising involuntarily, patting the lid of the ding, and a red and round elixir appeared in his palm.

"It's done!"

Through the small hole on the ding, Li Fuzi witnessed the pool of liquid gradually gathering, gradually becoming oval, and finally turned into a red and round elixir, and he didn't know what it was like, saying that it was a surprise and feeling a little disappointed.

The surprise is that with the talent of this little guy in front of him, within ten years Yuelu, no, the alchemy world of Daqian will rise a superstar, and the disappointment is that the future superstar in front of him seems to be a little hot for three minutes, and he can't take this opportunity to spur him well.

All kinds of thoughts were mixed in his heart, and Li Fuzi was a little stunned for a while.

"Master Li?" Nie Yun turned his head and shouted softly.

"Huh?" Li Fuzi came back to his senses with a slight shock, and then handed over the No. 9 talisman in his hand with some helplessness and said with a smile: "Look at you, ah, take it." ”

"Thank you, Master!" Nie Yun took the talisman with a smile, and said a little impatiently: "Master, if there is nothing else, I will go to the No. 9 Alchemy Room to have a look!" ”

"Hehe, go ahead, go ahead." Li Fuzi waved his hand, looked at Nie Yun's departing back and couldn't help but say: "Nie Yun, I have been teaching in the university hall for more than 20 years, you are the one with the best alchemy talent I have ever met, but you must not be complacent, the essence of the road of alchemy is the way of plants and trees, the way of heaven and earth." And we are just travelers on the road, we can get a glimpse of more excitement on the blue wisps of the road, Nie Yun, I sincerely hope that you can go further! ”

Nie Yun's footsteps paused slightly, and just as he wanted to turn his head and say something, the stone gate fell with a bang.

"The road is long, I will go up and down and seek."

In the No. 1 alchemy room, Li Fuzi's whispering voice echoed slowly.

......

Nie Yun, who came out of the No. 1 alchemy room, stood in front of the black stone door for a long time, a trace of confusion flashed in his eyes, and after a while, he sighed softly and slowly walked towards the No. 9 alchemy room.

After walking for less than two steps, he saw the sign of the No. 9 alchemy room, which looked no different from Nie Yun's original No. 23 alchemy room, it was still a black stone door, and there was a groove in the center of the stone door.

I didn't see anything special in my eyes, surrounded by black stone walls, only slightly spacious, the familiar hourglass was still flowing slowly in the corner, and a simple futon was still placed in the center, but there was not a low-grade medicine pod in front of the futon like other alchemy rooms, only a few inches large fire hole.

The real alchemists have their own medicine tripods, and the low-level medicine tripods provided by the academy for free are okay for alchemists who are just getting started, but it is better for students who are on the list of young eagles and hidden dragons.

Nie Yun paced to the futon and sat down slowly, instead of taking out the ice demon and placing it on the fire vent to experience the difference in the No. 9 alchemy room, he just sat there, looking at the fire outlet in front of him with a little blank eyes, sitting quietly, and gradually a mysterious aura quietly came.

The mysterious breath from the underworld echoed slowly, and finally gradually condensed into a phantom, the same eyes were blank, and the same sat cross-legged.

At the front of the courtyard of Wuzhen Hall, the old man was lying on the Taishi chair, slightly closing his eyes, shaking the pu fan gently, quietly enjoying the warm winter sun, and after a while, he opened his eyes, and a ray of light flashed in his cloudy old eyes, and his eyes looked in the direction of the alchemy hall, and his leisurely gaze seemed to penetrate all the barriers in the sense of space, and he saw Nie Yun sitting cross-legged on the futon at a glance.

"Do you ask your heart..."

The old man shook his hand with a fan and whispered, "It's too early, it's too early." ”

Why alchemy?

To make money? To get stronger? Or is it for the ethereal way of grass and trees? The way of heaven and earth?

Nie Yun never seemed to think about it seriously, but he just knew that it should be right to do this, and since it was right, then he would do it seriously and try to do it well.

It seems to be the case, he tried his best to get it right, and everyone, including Li Fuzi, praised him as a genius, but... Is it really enough?

People who don't know him think that he is three minutes hot, and after getting enough money, rewards, and fame, they will throw it aside, and those who know him think that he is mature and sober, and there is no need to make low-grade pills boringly and tedious after there is no economic pressure, and high-grade pills are more troublesome just to obtain medicinal materials, so it is a matter of course to put them aside for the time being and improve their strength.

"But what about me? What does alchemy mean to me? Nie Yun whispered silently, questioning the self hidden in his heart.

With a dilated look, Nie Yun faintly saw a person, with a smile on his delicate face, wearing a green robe, facing him sitting cross-legged on a futon and said lightly:

"In order to make money, the things in Wuzhentang are too expensive, and we are too poor, the poor can only carefully select a Canglan Sword Dictionary, and the poor can only buy a Broken Vein Pill, if it's just us, then it's just that." The other Nie Yun showed a gentle smile and said, "But our senior sister shouldn't be like us, this is our dereliction of duty." ”

"As for the improvement of strength, it's just a side product, maybe we can focus on learning alchemy and cultivating it, and then earn martial coins through the mission hall to buy pills, maybe we are stronger than now!" That Nie Yun continued to smile gently: "We are very comfortable in the university hall, we practice Lian Dan and go to class every day, and it's good to play around with senior sister, isn't it?" Even if we didn't really pay attention to the young eagles, hidden dragons, and general lists made by the academy, if we were really in a hurry to become stronger, we would have been able to take that Pulse Breaking Pill a long time ago. ”

"Is that all?" Nie Yun muttered, as if he was talking to himself and asking about his other self.

"That's all." The other Nie Yun smiled and nodded.

There was a trace of confusion in Nie Yun's eyes, and he suddenly felt that he had been just living in the expectations of others, because this matter was considered good by everyone, so he worked hard to do it, and that's it.

"Is it still too early?"

The pu fan in the old man's hand in the front yard of Wuzhen Hall stopped shaking, and he rarely sat up from the Taishi chair, shook his head and sighed gently, and an invisible fluctuation flashed away.

In the depths of the No. 9 Alchemy Room, the originally docile crimson flames suddenly surged up wantonly, setting off bursts of sparks, which ignited Nie Yun's sleeves through the fire outlet, burning the cyan robe into a black hole.

The sudden burning sensation pulled Nie Yun out of his confusion, and a wry smile appeared at the corner of his mouth, gently extinguishing the sparks on his sleeve.

"Hey." Nie Yun shook his head and sighed, silently took out the medicine Ding Ice Demon and put it at the fire outlet, but suddenly his eyes froze, his eyes stared at the robe he was burned, and a little black charcoal-like substance dotted the entrance of the cave.

Nie Yun stretched out his fingers and rubbed them, and the black coke on the edge fell in a slump, Nie Yun was stunned again, staring at the black coke and stunned.

Most of these herbs are charred when burned, so why is this garment also charred when burned? Why can't the metal burn? Why can't the sediment burn? And why can't metal sediment be used for alchemy?

Nie Yun thought for a long time, and shook his head as if lamenting, he couldn't figure it out, he couldn't figure it out, it was still too shallow after all.

"Huh?" Nie Yun was stunned again, and then laughed again, shallow, knowing that he is shallow, that's right!

In a trance, an illusory Nie Yun appeared in front of Nie Yun's eyes again, still in a green robe, sitting cross-legged on the futon and looking at Nie Yun with a smile.

This time, Nie Yun didn't wait for him to speak, and said categorically: "You are wrong, maybe I started alchemy just to make money, but from the time I really came into contact with the way of plants and trees, it was more than that!" ”

The illusory Nie Yun looked at him, and the smile on the corner of his mouth did not interrupt his speech, but listened quietly.

"Why do plants and trees burn until they turn into a puddle of coke, why can the sediment burn into crystals, why can metals only be burned to a liquid state and then re-solidify... It will be my life's pursuit to understand the essence of these things, to understand the nature of this heaven and earth, and to make everything in this world become a pill. ”

An inexplicable fire burned in Nie Yun's eyes: "And my thirst for strength was set more than ten years ago, and the reason why I don't use that Pulse Breaking Pill is that I want to use it when I break through the Ren Pulse or the Du Pulse." ”

"I'm going to be stronger! Strong enough to see every grass and every grain of dust in the world, so strong that there is no secret in my eyes, and more importantly, I want to be strong enough that no one in the world can hurt her, so that she can do whatever she wants freely! ”

"You are you, I am me." After the illusory Nie Yun was silent for a long time, a trace of complexity flashed in his eyes, and he didn't use us to call himself, but opened his arms in relief, and his whole body gradually became illusory and transparent, and the corners of his mouth outlined a shallow arc and slowly whispered: "Kill me to see the true me." ”

"Good boy, it's time to ask." The cloudy eyes of the old man in front of Wuzhen Hall widened slightly, a rare flash of surprise, and after a while, he showed a smile and lay back on the Taishi chair, and the pu fan that was some years old shook gently again, as if it had never stopped.

He originally wanted to pull Nie Yun out of that state, so as to prevent him from falling into the magic barrier and slumping from now on, but he didn't expect it... The old man gently closed his eyes.

"The back waves of the Yangtze River push the front waves."

Only when you truly realize yourself, see through all appearances, and understand what you really want can you have the slightest possibility to ask the road.

Otherwise, the heart is not sincere, why ask?

"When I see me, I know that I am not me." Nie Yun suddenly felt that his whole body had become relaxed, and the corners of his mouth outlined a happy smile: "From now on, I know why I cultivate." ”

Nie Yun stood up suddenly, opened the stone door and walked to the door of the No. 1 alchemy room, groped for a moment on the dark stone door, left a line of handwriting, and then turned around and left:

"The road is long and resistant, and the line is coming, which is also what the cloud wants!"