Ordinary Inner Courtyard disciples, when choosing the Heart Yuan Technique, generally consider more about attack, defense, and outbreak of these aspects related to battle, and the more powerful the better.

But for alchemy apprentices like Zuo Xiutong, who mainly focus on alchemy, although strength is equally important, it has another focus.

They are more inclined to pursue how to pick more and fresher herbs, and how to escape and save their lives when they encounter danger.

In order to facilitate the collection of medicines, the search for medicines, and the escape of their lives when they encounter danger, the main choice of the Mind Yuan Technique of each Dan Dao disciple will be more inclined to the two aspects of body method and assistance.

For example, when looking for spirit grass, a special secret method of exploration, 'Soul Tentacles', can be used, which is not practiced by ordinary inner court disciples, but for Dan Dao disciples, it is a basic skill, and basically everyone can do it.

In addition, when traveling in the jungle, ordinary disciples are basically on a rampage, and when they encounter danger, they will go up to fight, but Dan Dao disciples are different.

They are more inclined to be in the jungle, hiding their figures, and when they encounter danger, their first reaction is not to rush up to fight, but to flee directly.

Therefore, the 'Breath Gathering Technique' in the auxiliary Heart Yuan Technique, the 'Stand-in Technique' used when escaping, the 'Rolling Stone Fog Barrier Technique', etc...... are necessary means.

Of course, the more important thing is naturally the first of all kinds, the body method.

For Dan Dao disciples, the outbreak of attack and defense can be postponed and cultivated, but the grade does not have to be high, and it will not take too much time to cultivate, but the body method must be ranked first, not only requires high-quality products, but also definitely gives priority to cultivation, and the realm is the highest.

Because, Dan Dao disciples need to often travel through the jungle and mountains to collect medicinal materials, and they encounter many dangers.

For ordinary inner courtyard disciples, when they enter the mountain to train, they are all looking for a suitable place, not too weak, but also not too strong, the strength of the fierce beast type is just right, as long as they can hone their combat power.

But for Dan Dao disciples like Zuo Xiutong, there is no suitable place for them, where there is spiritual grass, they will go, where there is more spiritual grass, where the spiritual grass is good, they will rush there, as for how dangerous it is, it is all a secondary consideration.

Moreover, all elixirs actually have a common sense, that is, the more inaccessible and dangerous the place, the more elixirs will be produced, the higher the grade, and the probability of discovering rare spirit grass will also increase greatly.

This is not to say that in places where the mountains are high and the roads are dangerous, the growth rate of the spirit grass must be stronger than that of other places, but because, like those ordinary, close distances, and small dangers, the elixir has long been flooded by others.

The closer it is to the periphery, the safer the place, the elixir that grows, it is estimated that it has not yet grown and has not been harvested, and it cannot grow naturally at all, and it is a dream to find a high-level elixir, a rare elixir, in this kind of place.

Unless you're really lucky to the point of going against the sky.

And those inaccessible and unpredictable places, because they are inaccessible, few people come, so the elixir that grows in those places can be preserved.

For thousands of years, under the laws of nature, some ordinary elixirs have gradually been eliminated, and those elixirs that have grown for a long time and have strong vitality have slowly accumulated and become tablets.

Therefore, these places are the most heartfelt places for Dan Dao disciples like Zuo Xiutong, although they are dangerous, they are worth entering.

In this case, they can only work the body method, walk for many years, cross the mountains and cross the age, and need the body method; the body method is needed to climb the rock and jump over the stream, cross the river, and the body method is needed; in case of danger, self-rescue and escape, the body method is needed.

Therefore, the body method is the top priority of every Dan Dao disciple, and it is estimated that more than half of the wealth they spend on the body method and mind element technique in their lifetime.

Therefore, every Dan Dao disciple, the other strengths may not be very strong, but in terms of body and heart skills, they are definitely the best of the most of their peers.

Fighting with powerful beasts and killing is not their mission, avoiding danger, exploring the secrets, and collecting spirit grass is their real goal.

Therefore, Zuo Xiutong, a girl in Tsing Yi, once made Xiao Mo feel ashamed of herself, although Xiao Mo also practiced the explosive body method such as the 'Aurora Body Method', and even practiced a spirit-level combat footwork 'Fire Spirit Cloud Step', but in front of Zuo Xiutong, it was not worth mentioning at all.

In the process of rushing in the past two days, Xiao Mo found that even if he tried his best, his speed was less than half that of Zuo Xiutong, and this was still the effect of her deliberately slowing down when she saw that her speed was too slow.

Xiao Mo guessed that the body method cultivated by Zuo Xiutong, a girl in Tsing Yi, was at least a medium-grade spirit-level, and it was not an ordinary medium-grade spirit-level, but a very powerful middle-grade spirit-level body method......

The price of such a body method and mind element technique is only staggeringly expensive, and it is by no means something that ordinary disciples can learn casually, and even if they can, they are not willing to spend such a big price and weaken other aspects.

Only all-round development is the royal road for combat disciples.

But the disciples of Dan Dao are willing, no matter how much they spend for the sake of the body, law, and heart skills, they are also willing, because it is related to their own net worth and life, and no matter how much they pay, it is not too much.

Of course, because she has invested too much in the body method, in terms of exercises, heart yuan techniques, etc., Zuo Xiutong should be slightly inferior to the average inner court disciple, it is estimated that in addition to her very powerful set of starlight dragon rope secret method, she has definitely not practiced many other combat heart yuan skills, defense, and outbreak, these aspects, it is estimated that there are even less.

In addition, because Dan Dao disciples walk alone in the deep mountains and old forests all year round, and sometimes they have to master certain self-rescue methods when they encounter danger, so in addition to the necessary various elixirs, there are some very ordinary and basic treatment techniques to facilitate the treatment of their injuries at any time.

For them who are very proficient in Dan Dao, it is still easier than ordinary people to cultivate healing secret arts, and the effect of cultivation should be relatively strong.

Finally, it is about the basic skills of an alchemist, arguing medicines, and collecting medicines.

In the past, when Xiao Mo himself encountered the elixir, he just dug it up very roughly, and then put it in a jade box and sealed it, thinking that this would be perfect. But in the past two days with Zuo Xiutong, Xiao Mo found that Zuo Xiutong's method of collecting and collecting medicinal materials was completely different from him.

For example, once, when Xiao Mo found a gray-level spirit fruit called 'Earth Dragon Fruit', he was about to reach out and pick it, but Zuo Xiutong stopped him in a hurry.

Immediately, under Xiao Mo's stunned gaze, she first took out a small clay pot from her arms, and then stretched out under the fruit of the dragon fruit, her hand did not touch the fruit at all, but just pushed the clay pot upward.

Suddenly, the dragon fruit that was trapped in it gently fell off the branch and fell into the clay pot, and then Zuo Xiutong did the same, and picked the other three earth dragon seeds, Zuo Xiutong carefully took out a cloth and sealed it.

It wasn't until all the dragon fruits were picked that Zuo Xiutong handed the clay pot to Xiao Mo, frowned, and said, "Senior brother, there is a serious problem with your method of collecting elixirs. Dragon fruit is a metallic spirit fruit, and the best way to harvest it is to use a clay pot to harvest it, rather than picking it by hand. ”

"The so-called native gold, metal elixir, generally with the best utensils to hold the best, the so-called gold Tibetan mountain stone, born by the mountain, moist endlessly, with the soil utensils to hold the metal elixir, not only will not damage its medicinal properties, but can moisturize it, so that it can be kept for the longest time, and the medicinal properties will not be easily lost. ”

"In addition, you must understand that any elixir, which is the essence of heaven and earth, once picked by hand, will be contaminated with popularity, and it will damage part of its spirituality to a greater or lesser extent. Once the spirit is damaged, the medicine is greatly ineffective. ”

"Ordinary elixirs are just that, some elixirs have extremely high picking requirements, such as nine bowls of jade dragon flowers, they can't be dug up with gold tools, they can only be dug up with jade tools, and stored with utensils with water mist formation......s;

"Therefore, in the Dan Dao Gate, not only is alchemy very complicated, but there are thousands of differences in light collection of medicines, which must correspond to different attributes and different types, not that any kind of medicinal material is just a hoe to dig down, if you want to keep each medicinal material intact, you must master these methods. ”

"Therefore, whenever the medicine is collected, the collection method is exquisite, and even the utensils are said, generally every alchemist enters the mountain, and at least more than five kinds of medicine utensils will be carried on his body, gold, wood, water, fire, earth, jade...... Wait!"

"Ah......h

I don't know if I don't listen, Xiao Mo really doesn't know, he has so much knowledge just collecting an elixir, and he can't help but be at a loss for a while. Could it be that I have done wrong so many times before, but it seems that the elixir has not changed much?

He naturally didn't know that most of the time, there was nothing unusual about the elixirs collected in ordinary ways, but in the eyes of the alchemists, these elixirs did not belong to the perfect quality, and if they were not perfect quality, they could not refine the best elixir and could not reach the most extreme pursuit.

In addition, it was also his luck that he didn't come across some elixirs that needed to be picked by special methods, otherwise he would have been drunk on the head, and now Zuo Xiutong told him this, but it was equivalent to opening his eyes.

However, Xiao Mo still couldn't help but "mutter" to himself: "It's just a gray-level spirit fruit, and it's not worth a few dollars, isn't it...... If it's a green-tier or even yellow-tier herb, it might be worth it. ”

Obviously, in his eyes, the gray-level medicinal herb dragon fruit is not very precious, and one can only be sold for a hundred meritorious coins at most, is this meritorious coin worth such a lot of trouble?

Zuo Xiutong said: "Senior brother, don't underestimate the gray level elixir, in the eyes of our alchemists, any elixir has its own value, it is a gift from heaven and earth, and it is worthy of being treated with the most serious and pious attitude, it does not mean that it must be precious in the green order and humble in the gray level." If you don't know how to respect every elixir, you will never be able to become a true alchemist. ”

Hearing Zuo Xiutong's words, Xiao Mo knew that he had really gone astray, and he couldn't help but be in awe.

For a long time, he regarded alchemy as a means to make money, rather than his own pursuit, so it was inevitable to ignore it, and the gray-level medicinal materials felt very ordinary and not worth paying much attention to, but now after listening to Zuo Xiutong's words, it was like a thunderbolt in the sky, and it woke him up in an instant.

Yes, if you don't love a line, how can you be fine?

Life in the world, small as dust, for the provision of heaven and earth, you must have your own respect. This is true of alchemy, this is true of collecting medicines, and even, being a human being and cultivating is like this......

It is said that going against the sky, but in the end, who has to follow the way of heaven and integrate themselves into the laws of heaven and earth...... If there is no way in nature, how can you go against the sky?

Therefore, there is nothing wrong with wanting to make money with alchemy, but if you want to make money with it and don't respect it, sooner or later you will hit your head and bleed, and the early stage may not be obvious, the later it is, the bigger the bottleneck, the more levels, and you will be trapped in it after all.

Perhaps, this time, Zhongli Danshi arranged for Zuo Xiutong to go into the mountain to accompany him to collect medicine, which seemed to be giving him a difficult task of taking care of himself, but in essence, he did Xiao Mo a great favor, and he had his own good intentions.

Without her, how could I understand the key to becoming a true alchemist? How could I have learned that there is so much attention to in the collection of medicinal materials alone, and there are countless ways to preserve medicinal properties, which need to be studied carefully.

Maybe for a while, Xiao Mo can't fully grasp it, but at least, Xiao Mo has learned the basics from Zuo Xiutong, and he just needs to get familiar with it slowly, and he can finally reach Dacheng.

ps: second update.