Zhu Yunluo lives in the town of Zhushui, and often receives all kinds of rare things that Qiong also sends her from afar, sometimes golden live crickets, sometimes it is a protective ayaluo, this time, she sent a small package of extremely beautiful shells and corals, with a letter, it is written that she and Sheng Xuan have gone to the vicinity of the East China Sea, and it coincides with the mermaid demon rebellion, and after solving the trouble, she got a lot of shellfish, and picked some beautiful ones to send back to Ah Luo.

Zhu Yunluo put her handwritten letter in the cabinet, and strung the shell holes into wind chimes, and hung them by the window, as long as the wind rose, the room would sound crisply, and her heart would be happy.

Life here is leisurely, not as busy as in the Lu family's mansion in the past, Zhu Yunluo often feels that there is nothing to do, she can't be idle, she always feels that she has wasted these days, so she tries to learn another craft.

Although Zhu Yunluo has never gone to school, she and Qiong also took turns eavesdropping on the classes in the school in the house when they were children, teaching each other to read, they are literate, and they have read a lot of books. She has a delicate mind, except for not cultivating the root bones, learning everything quickly, weaving, female workers, cooking skills, learning one will be the other, everything is fine, I heard that there is no medical hall in the town, only a barefoot doctor in the two neighboring villages, and a small pharmacy, so I found a medical book to learn by myself.

After a few months of self-study, Zhu Yunluo realized that she couldn't be trapped in pen and paper, so she went to a pharmacy in a neighboring village to learn from a teacher, and it just so happened that this small pharmacy was also recruiting apprentices, so she was able to touch medicinal materials, contact patients, and learn from scratch step by step.

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Qiong Yi and Sheng Xuan, who traveled far away, had a very brisk life, although they could encounter demons and ghosts from time to time, or civil cases, but with their cultivation and experience, it was hardly any trouble.

Therefore, most of the time, they are playing and walking, their tails are raised and their heads are rushing to the front, Xiao Zao'er is lazily following behind, Qiong is also humming songs briskly, Sheng Xuan complains that Mosuo wants to accompany her with the flute in his arms, blowing sometimes good and sometimes bad, not as rhythmic as the barking of the tail.

On this day, they received a secret letter, the bamboo tube tied to the pigeon's feet was engraved with Xie's dark pattern, and flew away immediately after the letter was delivered.

Qiong also sat by the lake, looking at the letter raft in his hand, and wrote on it: The reason why the Gu Dan made by the Kunzhai clan can allow ordinary people to have the strength of a monk in a short period of time is because of the ancient secret technique "borrowing life".

The aura of heaven and earth, after absorption and refining, can be introduced into the human dantian and turned into true qi, which is the method of the right path. Ghost qi and evil qi can also be introduced into the body, and it can be reversed against the meridians and turned into true qi, which is an evil law. The qi of living beings, including their essence and blood, and flesh marrow, can also be turned into true qi by secret techniques, but this technique is extremely damaging to yin virtue and unethical, also known as "borrowing life".

These secret techniques were abused in ancient times, and were later resisted by righteous people and have long been lost. Things that should not exist in the world have seen the light of day in the hands of the Kunzhai people, they use Gu refining as a guide, using the "Heng Worm" with a long life span as the main medicine, refining a large number of living beings Qi as a pill, which is for the "Gu Dan". With this momentum, there was an astonishing number of pseudo-cultivation soldiers.

“…… That's exactly what happened. Joan muttered.

Sheng Xuanren pondered: "In terms of our pseudo-cultivation in the Western Frontier, that cultivation is probably not the level that a small amount of living soul qi can reach, and using Heng Worm as a medicine to induce not such a strong medicinal effect. In addition, the Rong people have a large number of corpses and living people on the battlefield, perhaps, those powerful pills, medicine refers to people. ”

Qiong was also a little disgusted, and said with a forehead: "This kind of evil art should disappear forever." ”

In ancient times, the secret technique of "borrowing life" was originally a method invented by people refining medicine to pursue immortality, and now King Kunzhai seems to be pursuing the method of immortality.

It is well known to monks that the monks live a long life but do not live forever, and unless the Mahayana ascends to immortality, they will eventually grow old and die, but this process is delayed by ordinary people. But in ancient times, it seems that there was a way to borrow corpses to return souls, or borrow things to prolong life, to get a life span that should not be, Qiong also thought, Gu Dan may just be this Kunzhai King's attempt to get immortality and expand his territory.

On the back of the letter paper is also a record of the method of cracking the Gu Dan: as long as you hit the three acupoints of the shoulder, the support and the center, the blood and qi of the living soul will overflow from the Baihui acupoint of the person who took the Gu Dan and lose its effect.

Sheng Xuan lowered his eyes and said in his heart: Since Gu Dan is no longer a mystery and there is a way to solve it, Kun Zhai will not be able to make any waves in the future, and the border war will not repeat the mistakes of the past.

The two read the letter, and their tails lay at Sheng Xuan's feet staring at the sparkling lake, and they wanted to go down to play in the water and have fun, but Sheng Xuanyan didn't let it go, so it could only stare at the two little finches flying around in the low air, the little bird stopped on the grass, and it suddenly jumped forward when it saw the opportunity, "Wow!" The birds were scared away with a bang, and they waged their tails happily.

Xiao Zao'er was also frightened by the tail, hummed and coquettish, and shrunk into Qiong Yi's arms, Qiong Yi burned the secret letter after reading, hugged Xiao Zao'er and coaxed: "It's okay, it's okay, the tail scares you again?" Bad dog, ignore it. Little jujube, the grass grows well here, are you full? ”

Xiao Zao'er snorted and pouted, licking her hand, Qiong also patted the horse's head, the tail listened to the words, bared her teeth and grinned at her "bad dog" to express dissatisfaction, turned her head and ran to Sheng Xuan's hand to show goodwill, it was not used to the horse that didn't carry anything, and let Sheng Xuanzhi groom it every day.

Sheng Xuan touched his tail and smiled lightly: "Tail, let's play in the water." We'll be gone in a moment. ”

The tail screamed twice, "plopped" and jumped into the water to cool off, Xiao Zao'er stepped on the hooves to watch the tail swim, Sheng Xuanyan hugged Qiong Yi and leaned on his arms, she smiled: "The township and county in front are quite lively, it seems to have set up a platform, there is a drama at night, passers-by say that the signature lo noodles of the county inn are also delicious." ”

"Well, is there anything else you'd like to eat?"

"Buy some melon seeds and listen to the play, Sheng Xuan, I want to drink fruit stuffing."

"Okay."

After playing with a good tail by the shallow water, Qiong also carried a towel to wipe it, but was thrown out of the water, Sheng Xuan's resentment was inevitably drenched, and he had no choice but to dry everyone with the fire trick, and then walked slowly along the mountain road.

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Joan's fear of ghosts is not completely gone, and she is still scared when she encounters them.

The two of them traveled for a few months, passing through a deep mountain, and were encountering an old ghost who slipped out of the tomb to harm people, and the villagers asked them to come to their rescue, on the night of the ghost, the old ghost was cunning, and seemed to see that Qiong was also very afraid, so he caught her and scared, only scared but not scared, Qiong also wanted to swing a sword to get rid of it, but he didn't hit it for a long time, and slipped away directly.

After Sheng Xuanzhi captured the ghost's breath, he got rid of this evil ghost who had plagued the mountain village for many years like chopping vegetables, he found the frightened Qiong Yi, and the next morning, taught her a spell.

"This trick is called Burning Flame." He adjusted the finger in her hand and said, "It is my clan's magic to eliminate ghosts, and it also restrains demons." As long as the strength of the evil creature cannot suppress the burning fire, it will be burned out. ”

Qiong also learned quickly, but Banzhu Xiang had mastered this technique, and she looked at him: "Then in the future, if the evil ghost still chooses to attack me first, I will use this burning fire to ignite it, and then escape to a distant place for you to deal with." ”

"Hmm. That's what I thought, too. ”

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During the journey, Sheng Xuanyan began to practice the martial arts borrowed from the Tibetan Hall, the eighteenth style of the Ling gun. Qiong also specially auctioned the next treasure gun for him, named Pingju, and saw that when he danced the spear in the reed, the gun wind was fierce, and it would bring up a piece of light, and under the glow, it was particularly dazzling.

Joan is also proficient in swordsmanship, and has not learned other weapons, but in addition to practicing swords, he has learned a lot of tricks. She wanted to make up a recipe for her unique Wind Resisting Technique, and it was best to write it into a rune paper.

Seeing Sheng Xuanyan's marksmanship practice improving by leaps and bounds, Qiong also knew that a little talented person still couldn't compare with the real Tianjiao, but she never felt that she had lost to him.

The two need to learn from each other to hone their martial arts, and often do not draw their swords, and fight with their sheaths, five of the ten games are drawn, and the remaining Sheng Xuan's resentment accounts for two percent, and Qiong also accounts for three percent.

In the case of a bare-handed, close-to-body contest, it would be difficult for Joan to get a bargain with him, although she felt that melee combat was just a matter of hooking his chin to win, and there was nothing to worry about.

But when he was pressed between the grass and couldn't move, and the meaning of the competition changed, Joan also thought to himself, in fact, it was quite necessary to calculate.

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In the winter, Zhu Yunluo, who was an apprentice in the pharmacy, received a strange gadget sent back by Qiong Yi.

This time it was a seed the size of a thumbtip, and the letter was full of cold and warmth, saying that he and Sheng Xuan had been resentful of everything recently, and they had seen a lot of superb scenes and helped many people. As for the seed, it was a tree full of spiritual energy, and I heard that it could grow a rare spiritual tree, but they had no fixed place to live, so they gave it to her to try to plant.

Zhu Yunluo was suspicious, dug a shallow pit outside the courtyard, planted the seeds, watered them, and then left the house with a basket on his back.

Life in the pharmacy was not easy, nominally as an apprentice, but in fact it was to find a job that was paid for. The guys in the store saw that she was a lonely girl's house, and they harassed her from time to time, but Zhu Yunluo endured it again and again, which made him even more inched.

Zhu Yunluo thought: As soon as the New Year's Festival passes, he will give the two catties of bacon dried at home to the owner of the pharmacy, and he will not be an apprentice there.

She opened the yellow paper in her hand, on which were written various medicinal herbs, and it was a prescription.

Today, a poor family in the town of Yanshui went to the pharmacy to see a doctor, the old man in the family fell while farming, his breath was dying, seeing that there were few days to live, his son and daughter-in-law begged each other, and could not take out the silver taels, was swept out of the store by the pharmacy guys, knelt on the street for a long time, and the sound of knocking and kowtowing could be heard all afternoon, attracting passers-by to watch and point.

Zhu Yunluo couldn't see this, so she called a few people away under the guise of going to the toilet, checked the pulse of the patient, and wrote a prescription, in which the medicinal materials were all good to buy in the store, but there were only two flavors missing, tiger bone and half ginseng incense.

Tiger bones are scarce, heavy money is hard to find, and there are naturally no small pharmacies in the town, and Zhu Yunluo doesn't know if the big medical hall in the city can buy them.

She is now not short of silver dual-use, Qiong also often sends her silver tickets back, plus her embroidery is good, embroidery to the street to sell is a hot goods, life is very rich. She thought to herself: If the city medicine hall has goods, it would be good to go to a far away door to buy it.

As for the semi-ginseng incense, most medical centers don't use this side medicine anymore, and she said secretly: I'm afraid I have to go to the mountains to pick it.

So, she looked for a carriage and went to the most prosperous city in Luoyao to buy medicine.

The city is lively, the carriages and horses gather, the first thing Zhu Yunluo sees when he gets off the sedan chair is not the street market where people come and go, but the peak that is high into the clouds between the canopies in the distance, and the mountains are green and extensive, which is really magnificent.

She looked at it in a daze, and said in her heart: That, it's Baiyu Mountain.

It is an unattainable peak, and it is also the immortal mountain that these mortals look up to.

Zhu Yunluo retracted her gaze, inquired about the famous medical hall in the city, and entered the store to find medicine.

Sure enough, several large pharmacies were out of stock, and the kind doctor said to her: "Tiger bones and other rare medicinal materials can't be bought on the ordinary market, or you go to the black market to buy them, and you will inevitably encounter fakes." Or, you can ask the warrior to go up the mountain to kill the tiger, take the bones and send them to us, and we can refine the medicinal materials for you without collecting money. But girl, I see that you look a little anxious, I'm afraid you are in a hurry to use this medicine, right? This is troublesome, even if there are materials, it will be difficult to make a medicine for a while. ”