On the wooden case in front of Yan Xuan was a wooden board like a cutting board, the wooden board was extremely clean, and there was a spiritual grass on it, which was the most common Tian Xinlan, this spiritual grass was washed clean, and even the pale white fluffy grass roots were carefully cleaned with water, and they were not clean.

She held a sharp knife more than one finger long in her right hand, and gently pressed the Tian Xinlan with her left hand, and her eyes looked at the intersection of the stems and leaves of the spirit grass and the roots, and then she went down with a knife and cut the Tian Xinlan into two pieces with a "click".

The stems and leaves were placed on a plate where there was already a small pile of Tian Xinlan with the grass roots cut off. The cut grass roots were placed on another plate by her, and naturally they were also a small pile.

This Tian Xinlan is a low-level spirit grass, the stems and leaves are different from the grass roots, so this spirit grass should be cut before use and then put into the medicine separately, this step is called "grass separation", before the grass is divided, the dust and soil on the spirit grass should be washed off, this step is called "grass washing".

This grass washing and grass Yan Xuan has mastered the skill, grass washing should be simpler, the main thing is that the grass can not hurt the spirit grass when washing the grass, and the grass is much more difficult, then the "Spirit Herb Collection" must be all in the heart, in addition, the senior sister must listen attentively when teaching, and carefully see how the senior sister does it.

The simplest spirit grass such as this Tian Xinlan, as long as the roots and stems and leaves are separated, the roots, stems, leaves, flowers and fruits of high-level spirit grass, the medicinal effects are different, and they cannot be mixed, I heard that there are also some spirit grasses from top to bottom The leaves should also be carefully distinguished, and the medicinal effects are also different, then it is necessary to test the eyesight and knowledge of the person who studies alchemy medicine, and if you make a mistake, even if the Dan is refined, it is a waste pill.

Yan Xuan is the little sister who is most appreciated by Senior Sister Min, Senior Sister Min has been watching her wash grass and divide grass for some time, and then she has been tested with different spiritual grasses, and as a result, Yan Xuan's performance Senior Sister Min is very satisfied, so she taught her some pharmaceutical methods in advance.

Yan Xuan took a clean stone pot, put the Tian Xinlan with the roots cut off into it, and then used a stone pestle to crush the Tian Xinlan in it carefully, until the Tian Xinlan in the stone pot was pounded into a paste, then use a silver spoon to scoop out the paste-like Tian Xinlan and put it in a clean white silk silk bag, and tie the string at the mouth of the bag. He put it on a press table, pulled a thin rope next to it, and a heavy object slowly pressed on the press table, and the dark green grass juice was squeezed out of the bag under pressure, and flowed down a hole into a bowl that had been placed below.

When the grass juice flowed down, he first passed through a few pieces of fine white yarn placed on the bowl, and those white yarns filtered out all the remaining spiritual grass residues in the grass juice, and when the pressure table was no longer flowing out of the grass juice, Yan Xuan removed the white yarn from the mouth of the bowl, took it up and sent it to the nose to sniff it carefully, nodded slightly, and then covered the bowl with a clean white yarn, and took a pen to write a few words on the white yarn, and then put the whole bowl on a high place to stand.

This grass juice is to stand for a period of time, after the water is lost and becomes viscous, it is the main raw material for the preparation of various medicines, and when it is prepared, the grass juice after the viscosity of different spirit grasses is mixed together according to different medicinal effects, kneaded evenly, and then kneaded into pills.

This Qixia Mountain is famous for its alchemy, both within the sect and in the entire cultivation world. The monks of Qixia Mountain thought that although this statement was true, it was incomplete, and in their opinion, Qixia Mountain should be famous for its elixir technique.

Dan and medicine should be said separately.

Dan is generally a variety of spiritual grass put into the Dan furnace through the art of fire refining, generally known as Dan, are beneficial to the monk's own cultivation, such as Qian Chao and others now three per month "Yang Yuan Dan", is a low-level fire refining pill, Qi refining disciples can help their own spiritual power growth after taking it. In addition, there are some high-level pills, although they have little effect on the growth of spiritual power, but they are effective for a certain method, such as the fire control technique carefully studied by Qixia Mountain, which is a blind "Chixia Pill", and then cultivating the fire control technique after taking it can have the effect of getting twice the result with half the effort, so this "Chixia Pill" is also very popular among disciples in Qixia Mountain.

The medicine is different from the pill, and the medicine in the cultivation world is similar to the medicine in the mortal world, and it has the effect of healing. Maybe the real immortals are not injured by gold and stone, water and fire are not invasive, but these immortal cultivators in the cultivation world are not, not to mention, let's just say that these disciples in the sect who go to the temple every day to do things will inevitably encounter those demon beasts and monsters wandering in the wild outside, and after a fight, they will inevitably be injured by those demon beasts, whether it is skin and flesh wounds, muscle and bone injuries, or bites by poisonous demon beasts, these are all needed to be treated with medicine. Compared with mortals in the world, cultivators have a much longer lifespan, and they will not get sick, but injuries are inevitable.

The old ancestor of Qian Chao's family is an example, he went out and encountered a powerful demon beast, although he saved his life after a fight, but the dantian, the root of his cultivation, was seriously injured, and finally had to leave the sect and return to the Qian family.

Therefore, medicine is as important an item for monks as Dan, and several places in Qixia Mountain that sell elixirs are crowded with monks almost every day, and no one wants to run out of medicine when they encounter an accident outside, which is terrible.

Generally speaking, a disciple like Yan Xuan in Qixia Mountain who practices the art of pills first learns medicine and then alchemy. There is no other way to say this, just because alchemy still requires very strict fire control techniques with disciples, while medicine only requires disciples to know herbs, understand pharmacology, and be patient and careful. Therefore, Yan Xuan has been learning to prepare various elixirs these days, and the fire control technique has been practicing painstakingly.

In order to be able to open the furnace for alchemy as soon as possible.

There is also a small circular plaque made of spiritual bamboo, covered with a thin white veil, which was the first batch of elixir prepared by Yan Xuan himself a few days ago, called "Yuzhi Pill", if the monk suffered a minor injury, he either took it or crushed this pill and applied it to the wound can have a miraculous effect.

The elixir that had just been prepared had to be left to stand for a few days, Yan Xuan took off the small bamboo plaque, removed the white yarn, looked at the pills that had become brown, pinched it gently, grabbed it and sniffed it, and felt that it should be okay, but she was still not at ease, took out a pill, and took out a sharp knife with a long and shiny finger, held down the pill on the case and gently cut off a very small point on it with a knife, and then pressed the little medicine on the fingertip with her finger and sent it into her mouth, and tasted the medicinal properties carefully. After a while, he gently spit out the little medicine on the tip of his tongue in his mouth.

It's okay, Yan Xuan said to himself after tasting it.

This step is to taste the medicine, and what are the properties of the prepared medicine, you only need that little to taste. This is also a compulsory practice for disciples who practice alchemy in Qixia Mountain. In addition, there is also the taste of the pill, and the medicinal properties of the elixir of fire refining are also to be tasted, but the taste of the pill Yan Xuan has not learned yet.

Taking out a jade bottle, Yan Xuan carefully packed the pills in the small bamboo plaque into the bottle one by one, after twenty pills, the small bottle was full, and there were two pills on the bamboo plaque, the remaining two were Yan Xuan's own, she took out a small wooden box from the storage bag, and put the remaining two pills into the store.

Holding the jade bottle, Yan Xuan walked out of the Baicao Courtyard and walked into an adjacent building called "Qixiang Pavilion".

There was no furnishings on the first floor of this Qixiang Pavilion, there were a few bookcases in the middle, and there were several young monks sitting in the back, and there were people lining up before each bookcase, Yan Xuan saw that there was a female cultivator who looked like a senior sister sitting behind a bookcase, so he stood in the line and waited.

Yan Xuan lined up, and the people in front of him stayed in front of the bookcase for a while before leaving. However, when Yan Xuan was about to arrive, he listened to a cold voice behind the bookcase and said to a Qixia Mountain disciple in front of the bookcase: "Lower level, lower grade"

Yan Xuan didn't recognize who the disciple in front of the bookcase was, but listening to the man's voice, he seemed a little anxious and unwilling.

"Inferior? Senior Sister Mei, you can't be mistaken, or you can try two more grains. ”

Then there was no sound, and after a while the cold voice was heard again.

"Down-level and low-grade, you can't make a mistake, there are still a few grains that are not in the grade, if you don't believe me, Senior Brother Xing, you can go to Senior Sister Baiyue over there and ask again."

This Bai Yue Senior Sister Yan Xuan had heard that it was a foundation-building female cultivator sitting on the first floor of this Qi Xiang Pavilion, but the disciple surnamed Xing didn't seem to have the heart to go to that Bai Yue again, so he had to pack up his pills and leave. Yan Xuan then saw a young male cultivator who seemed to be a few years older than himself passing by sullenly.

When it was Yan Xuan's turn to come to the bookcase, he found that the back of the bookcase was actually a cold and beautiful female cultivator, a few years older than him, and the same age as his Senior Sister Min, so he suddenly thought that the person before called this woman "Senior Sister Mei", could this woman be the Senior Sister Mei who was called "Mei Min Shuangshu" with Senior Sister Min? Looking at the eyebrows and facial features, it seems that they are more standard than Senior Sister Min, but they have a cold and proud look, which makes people not close, far less cordial and peaceful than Senior Sister Min.

"Senior Sister Mei" Yan Xuan sat down on the futon in front of the bookcase, and put his master's jade pendant and the jade pendant containing the pill on the bookcase together.

Senior Sister Mei stared at Yan Xuan, and saw that there was a beautiful little girl sitting opposite, although she had never seen it, she also had a little affection for Yan Xuan's appearance.

Looking at the jade card, Senior Sister Min asked, "Yan Xuan?" Senior Sister Yan, are you here for the first time? ”

"Yes," Yan Xuan replied.

Senior Sister Mei nodded, then poured all the pills in Yan Xuan's jade bottle into a jade plate on the bookcase, and then glanced at Yan Xuan after randomly pairing the twenty pills in pairs with her hands, and said, "The first time you check it carefully, this is the rule." ”

Yan Xuan nodded.

I saw that Senior Sister Na Mei used a clean fine yarn to wipe a small knife carefully, and then took one of every two pills, gently cut off a very small point, as before Yan Xuan, pressed it with her fingers and then put it in her mouth, spit it out after tasting it, and then rinsed her mouth with the tea on the table, and then checked the pills below.

After Senior Sister Mei checked everything, she rinsed her mouth with tea and wiped the corners of her mouth with a handkerchief, and looked at Yan Xuan with some surprise in her eyes.

"It's rare, Senior Sister Yan, you actually passed all of them for the first time."

Saying that, Senior Sister Mei took a small bamboo card from the side, picked up the pen and wrote the words "Lower Grade" on it, and handed the small bamboo card to Yan Xuan after writing.

"Ah, this is for you, you can give it to Baicaoyuan."

"Thank you, Senior Sister Mei." Yan Xuan thanked him and happily took the small bamboo card.

This small bamboo card will be hung in Yan Xuan's name after it is handed back to the Baicao Academy, although the low-grade medium-grade elixir is only qualified, but the next time Yan Xuan receives the spiritual grass from the Baicao Yuan, the person in charge of the Baicao Yuan can rest assured that the spiritual grass will be given to her after verifying Yan Xuan's bamboo card.

The amount of spiritual grass that Yan Xuan can receive from Baicao Yuan at one time, according to the rules of Qixia Mountain, must hand over at least twenty lower-grade mid-grade pills to the master, if it is less, the disciple must make up for it himself, or do things for the master or find a way to get the spirit grass and then prepare a qualified elixir, in short, if he does not make up the difference, it will be difficult to receive the spirit grass from the Baicao Academy.

But if there are more pills that meet the requirements, such as the two left by Yan Xuan himself, they are the disciple's own, and this elixir Yan Xuan himself either uses it for his own use or takes it out to sell, Qi Xia Mountain doesn't care. The better Yan Xuan's skill in preparing elixirs, the greater her income, for example, if she could prepare twenty-five lower-grade mid-grade pills at a time, then she could keep five for her own use.

In the future, the same will be true when refining pills, in short, the higher the attainment, the higher the income.

If the small bamboo card given to her by Senior Sister Mei can make up enough ten, Baicaoyuan will give Yan Xuan a jade button, which is not big, made of jasper, the size of a fingernail, tied to the top of the jade pendant of the master, called "Lingcaokou", with it on the body, the elixir prepared by himself will be relieved when others buy it. The above Lingcao is the "Hundred Grass Knot", which is also a jade button made of jasper, which is different from the shape of the Lingcao Cardamom, but it has a certain attainment in dispensing, at least the small bamboo cards that are qualified in dispensing must accumulate to one hundred to get.

And if there is a small success in alchemy, what Qi Xiashan gave is a small white jade gourd, and it is even more difficult to hang this thumb-sized white jade gourd on the silk silk of the jade pendant of the master.

Senior Sister Min's jade pendant has a spirit grass cardamom, a hundred grass knots, and a small white jade gourd, and Yan Xuan was envious after knowing the origin of those ornaments.

"Senior Sister Min, look!"

Getting the small bamboo card given by Senior Sister Mei, Yan Xuan was extremely happy and found Senior Sister Min in Baicao Courtyard.

Senior Sister Min smiled and took the small bamboo card and looked at it.

"Yes, yes, yes, Senior Sister Yan, you did a good job, well, looking at this handwriting, it seems to be Senior Sister Mei's, she is very serious, it is not easy to get this small brand from her!"

"I also want to wear this like Senior Sister Min."

As he spoke, Yan Xuan stretched out his hand and touched Senior Sister Min's spirit grass.

"Then what, do you want to ask for the hundred grass knot or the jade gourd first?"

"This ...... I really haven't thought about it. ”

"It's all the same, but generally speaking, it's better to have a white grass knot faster, how is your fire control technique doing?"

"I haven't put it down, one day my sister is free, how about I show you?"

"Don't worry, I'll look at it after you get the spirit grass cardamom, if you can, I can teach you alchemy."

"Senior Sister Min, I made twenty-two of them this time, and I kept two for myself."

"Senior Sister Yan, don't use or sell these extra medicines first, if you can get enough twenty, you can get a spiritual grass from the Baicao Academy without dispensing, you can keep the spiritual grass first, and you can use it when you learn alchemy, that alchemy is much more difficult than dispensing, and the success rate is very low when I first learn, this is what Senior Sister taught me when I was learning alchemy, otherwise where would there be so many spiritual herbs for me to practice."

Yan Xuan immediately understood when he heard this, and said gratefully: "I understand, thank you Senior Sister Min." ”