Chapter 12: Little Pills
Long Qing stepped forward.
Because of nervousness, his movements were a little clumsy, especially his hands were trembling a little, and it was very difficult to pick up the small porcelain vase. A little closer, the faint medicinal fragrance oozing from the small porcelain bottle entered his nose, making him involuntarily slowly close his eyes, and his face showed an intoxicated expression.
Smelling the fragrance of medicine, Long Qing felt that the filth and turbidity in his body were all purified in an instant, his body became much lighter, his feet gradually left the ground, and seemed to become a white feather as light as nothing.
I don't know how long it took, he opened his eyes, looked at the small porcelain bottle he was holding in his hand in a daze, and his hands trembled again - just smelling the fragrance of the medicine, he had already given birth to a feathering spiritual illusion, if he ate the pill in the small porcelain bottle into his abdomen, what would be the effect?
He guessed what the pill was in the small porcelain bottle, excited to the extreme, but terrified to the extreme, greed, ecstasy, struggle and hesitation kept changing in his eyes.
Many years ago, he graduated from the Heavenly Oracle Academy and joined the Second Division of the Adjudication Division. Probably because both he and Ye Hongyu were still young and could not threaten the Ruling Great Priest on the Moyu Divine Throne at all, so the atmosphere in the Ruling Temple at that time was not as solemn and gloomy as it had been in the past few years, and occasionally the Divine Throne would gossip with them.
In a conversation between Shenzao and Ye Hongyu, Longqing, who was quietly waiting on the side, once heard the name of an elixir, which was called Tongtian Pill.
Tongtian Pill is the most precious elixir of Haotian Daomen, not even in Xiling Temple - although this elixir can't really help people in the world to break through the gap between heaven and man and become immortals, but if ordinary people take it, they can increase their longevity by ten years, and the most important thing is that Tongtian Pill can help cultivators break through the realm!
If a cultivator takes Tongtian Pill and goes from the Immortal Realm to the Cave Realm, it can be said that the medicine has broken the realm, even from the Cave Realm to the Knowing Destiny Realm, the success rate may be more than fifty percent!
With this terrifying effect, one can imagine the supreme allure of the Tsuten Pill to the cultivators, but few cultivators in the world today know that there is a Tsuten Pill at all.
Long Qing knew about the Tsuten Pill, and he confirmed that the small porcelain bottle contained the Tsuten Pill.
He used to be the profound son of Xiling, but at the moment when he was about to cross the realm of knowing his fate, he was shot in the chest by Ning Que's arrow, destroying the snow mountain qi sea and turning him into a waste that could not be cultivated. It's a pity that although the snow mountain qi sea was restored, all the cultivation of the year disappeared, and he had to start practicing from scratch, and it was even more difficult than back then.
Once owned, and then lost, this pain is far better than being poor from birth, once seen, but can no longer see, this pain is far better than being born blind, no one wants to have the realm of the year more than the current Longqing.
So the little porcelain vase tempted him far more than anything else in the world.
Long Qing held the small porcelain vase, smelling the faint fragrance of medicine, his hands trembled more and more, and even his whole body trembled, the expression on his face changed endlessly, he struggled and hesitated in pain, sweat gushed out like rice milk in the cracks of a stone mill, and instantly wet the Taoist robe on his body.
Suddenly, he bit his lip hard, moaned and sucked the slightly sweet blood, allowing himself to gain a moment of consciousness, and let out a howl like a beast before death!
With this howl of pain, the greed, desire, excitement and fear in his eyes gradually turned into calm and even indifference, and his body no longer trembled. He took one last look at the small crystal clear porcelain vase in his hand, took a deep breath, and then put it back in its place with a blank face.
It's not that the Tongtian Pill in the small porcelain vase doesn't tempt him enough. If he could, he would not hesitate to open the small porcelain bottle, without looking at it, he swallowed the pill in the bottle into his stomach, he was not a gentle gentleman like the senior brother of the academy, he was faced with a god-given opportunity to repair his cultivation realm, but he gave up calmly because of the so-called moral constraints.
The reason why Longqing was able to resist the temptation and put the small porcelain vase back was only because of a very simple reason - this was not a heaven-sent opportunity, because Haotian did not say that he would give Tongtian Pill to himself.
Although the Lord of the South China Sea once said that his mind is Haotian's will, he is not the only one in this world, so there are many kinds of Haotian's will.
Uncle Shi asked him to come and get the medicine tripod, saying that this was his blessing, then his fortune was here, it was not Tongtian Pill, at least not yet, because Uncle Shi would definitely be watching quietly somewhere at this time
Long Qing found the medicine tripod, and then found the two flavors of medicinal materials that were used to refine the sitting pill, locked the door and left, went to the alchemy room at the back of the medicine hall, bathed and changed clothes, and began to alchemy according to the method recorded in the Book of Heaven.
The fire gradually rose, the tripod gradually heated, the medicinal herbs gradually melted, and the strange and complex medicinal fragrance, along with the gap next to the tripod, overflowed, permeated the alchemy room, and drifted away to the outside of the hall.
Long Qing sat cross-legged outside the ding, watching intently, controlling the temperature and the time order of the medicinal materials, without any expression on his face, looking extremely calm. It was as if he hadn't seen the small porcelain vase at all, as if the deep blood mark on the corner of his lips didn't exist.
This extreme calmness made his whole person exude a gloomy aura, as if he had lost his soul. Only he knows that the loss of his soul is actually just an illusion, and his state of mind at this time is really unusually calm, and it can even be said that it is as cold as snow.
He sat next to the medicine tripod and waited quietly, not knowing whether he was waiting for the success of the pill in the tripod, or waiting for the day when the Tongtian pill would become his blessing.
Zhishouguan is gradually shrouded in night, and the stars appear.
The middle-aged Taoist stood on the shore of the lake and looked at the reflection of the stars on the water, thinking about Longqing's previous appearance, and said with emotion: "The vision of the Lord is really extraordinary, and this son will be extraordinary." β
There is also a lake in the mountain behind the academy, a mirror lake that is as calm as a mirror.
It's summer, the air is stuffy, and the mountains behind the academy are still cool like spring, especially around the mirror lake, the climate is pleasant, so the brothers who only love to play chess and play music in the mountains and forests on weekdays and enjoy the flowers are like wild ducks who are greedy for water, and they have come out of the forest to come here.
In the forest by the lake, from time to time, there was a sound of clear and elegant music, and there was a sound of arguments and scolding after losing chess, and the sound of the eleventh senior brother Wang holding his hand to hold the green leaves and the sentimental flowers falling into fruits, so noisy.
The seventh senior sister teak loves to eat melon seeds, loves idle chatter and loves to be lively, but she loves to embroider flowers on this quiet lake, and after all, she still can't resist this noise, and hides in the small courtyard under the waterfall.
So the pavilion in the middle of the lake was occupied by Chen Pipi and Ning Que, who had been devastated and had long since stopped caring about these noisy sounds. Chen Pipi shook his head and said, "I don't understand, the courtyard of the second senior brother is so close to the waterfall, and the sound of falling water is as loud as thunder, can it be quieter than here?"
"Don't try to take the words away, I'm not Aunt Wu, and I'm not interested in this kind of rumor. Ning Que said: "You just tell me the truth, what kind of medicine did you give me before I died that year." β
In the spring of that year, he slashed his master Yan Suqing in Chang'an City, was seriously injured, covered in blood and lying on Vermilion Bird Street, causing the Vermilion Bird Rune to invade his body, and the big black umbrella to protect the master, and finally came to the academy with difficulty, and was already dying. He thought that he would die like this, but he didn't expect that the serious injury he received when he woke up was miraculously healed, and what was even more amazing was that the snow mountain qi sea in his body had been rebuilt.
For this incident, Ning Que has never forgotten it. At that time, it was Yu Curtain and Chen Pipi who appeared in the old book building, and at that time, it was not the third senior sister's Yu Curtain who only gave him a bowl of water and two steamed buns, and naturally there was no way to heal the injury, so the final object of suspicion pointed to Chen Pipi.
Chen Pipi is not a guy who does good deeds without leaving a name, and soon admitted that he saved it, and said distressedly that he fed Ning Que an extremely precious pill, even if you don't promise it, at least you have to repay it with your life, but he never told Ning Que, what kind of pill is that.
"Why do you have to know this?"
Chen Pipi looked at him annoyed and said, "Then you have already eaten one, baby, do you want to eat it again!"
Ning Que replied honestly: "If there is still one, why don't you eat it?"
These days, Ning Que and Sang Sang have been living in the mountains behind the academy in order to recuperate, listening to the piano and watching chess and chatting all day long, and they have a leisurely and happy life, and from time to time there is news from Chang'an City, except for knowing that the queen's love is still very bad, there is nothing that can affect the love.
Spring goes to summer, and the day of setting off for the Langke Temple has arrived. Ever since he knew that the reclusive elder of the Rotten Ke Temple could cure Sangsang's illness, Ning Que stopped thinking about the terrible prospect that he might be the son of the Hades King and would be suppressed by the light of the Ten Thousand Buddhas, and began to prepare for the things on the journey, the most important thing was of course Sangsang's body.
After recuperating in the mountains behind the academy for many days, Sang Sang has already improved a lot, but he is still not at ease, so he asked Senior Brother Eleven for a lot of good medicinal materials, and now he has hit the idea on the head of Chen Pipi.
Chen Pipi said: "There are only three in total, I ate one by myself, you wasted one, where is it?"
Ning Que counted with his fingers for a long time, and said very seriously: "Senior brother, your math results are really not good, obviously there is still one." β
"Is this a matter of counting? Is this a thing of counting?"
Chen Pipi burst into a rage and said: "Three minus two equals one, do you still need to count the index for a long time? You just want to disgust me, don't you? My one is kept to save my life! But you ate the one I originally prepared for Senior Brother Ye, I had to leave the one I wanted to save my life to him, where is it!"
"Mr. Ye Su is so amazing, where would I need your life-saving pills. β
Ning Que said pitifully: "Senior brother, senior brother knows that he doesn't have that blessing, but can you give me that reward, I'm worried that Sangsang will get sick again on the road." β
Hearing this, Chen Pipi was silent, then raised his head and said, "Okay." β
Ning Que had already roughly guessed the precious Cheng dΓΉ of the pill at this time, and he had already decided to give up, but he didn't expect Chen Pipi to actually agree, and he couldn't help but be stunned.
He suddenly remembered that Chen Pipi was going back to Zhishouguan, and felt that he had gone too far, so he stood up, patted his buttocks, and walked towards the shore of the lake, and said, "Just kidding, what are you doing so seriously." β
(I'm going out the day after tomorrow, and I'm desperately trying to save the manuscript.) (To be continued)