Chapter Twenty-Three: Beetles
In the quiet room in the ore cave, Miss Su sat cross-legged on the stone bed, with a delicate jade bottle on her palm, opened the mouth of the bottle, and there were more than a dozen blue and blue beetles wriggling in it, and gently took out five beetles with her vitality, but she hesitated again, and put one back into the jade bottle with some reluctance.
After putting the jade bottle back, he took out another pill, carefully pinched off a little powder, and after feeding the beetle, he let it fly out casually, with a slight smile on his face.
The carriage moved smoothly in the withered yellow grass, faintly emanating the fragrance of the elixir from the carriage, and the second elder rode the red wind horse issued by the army with a smile on his face and slowly followed the carriage, followed by a few stewards discussing the distribution of the elixir.
The sun was setting in the west, and the march in front of it gradually stopped, and then the military order to set up camp came, and the soldiers who had walked for a day began to set up their tents.
The second elder did not disturb Qin Wen, who was refining the pill in the carriage, and stood beside the camp tent to direct the stewards to prepare dinner, and after about half a pillar of incense, the bonfires on each camp were lit.
At this time, a few people came out of the Du family's tent and walked towards the Qin family's camp, and Steward Liu saw that it was still the folding fan boy who laughed at Qin Hu that day, and he was followed by an old man with white beard, so he hurriedly whispered to the second elder: "The people of the Du family are here." ”
The second elder smiled slightly, greeted him, and when he saw the old man, he couldn't help but be slightly stunned and said, "It turned out to be the second steward of the Du family, I don't know what happened today?"
The young man with the folding fan still had an arrogant demeanor, sniffed the fragrance of the pill coming from the carriage and said, "Your Qin family really has a set, I remember that your left worship has not yet broken through the Xuanshi period, why did you find a new alchemy?"
The second elder said lightly: "Our Qin family naturally can't compare with the Du family in the Dan Dao, it's just refining some ordinary pills and distributing them to our own children. ”
At this time, the second steward who came with the young man with the folding fan arched his hand towards the second elder and said: "This is Du Huan, the third young master of my family, I followed the third young master to the Qin family to discuss some things, our third young master has just come out of the mountain from the spirit refining gate to practice, and he doesn't know much about the things under the mountain, so our patriarch asked me to take him to contact more affairs." ”
The second elder couldn't help but smile coldly in his heart and said secretly: "I don't know anything about the things under the mountain, but I know everything about the cultivation of our Qin family's alchemy offerings, it seems that the Du family is still a thief." ”
However, he didn't show it on his face, so he nodded and said, "Okay, let's talk in my tent." ”
The second steward waved his hand and said, "I came here to negotiate a deal with the Qin family according to the meaning of our patriarch, and I have been dangling a little bit in the carriage, so it's not bad to talk outside." ”
At this time, the second elder asked the steward next to him to take out a few cushions, and then sat on the cushions casually and said, "Second steward, please speak." ”
The second steward smiled slightly at this time: "A few days ago, due to the demand for too many pills from various clans, your Qin family was a little less when it was distributed, and today our patriarch specially asked me to apologize." ”
Looking at the half-apology on his smiling face, the second elder also said lightly perfunctorily: "Don't talk about this matter anymore, now our Qin family's own refining pill is still a little left, if your Du family's refining is not enough, we can help one or two." ”
"Snort," Du Huan next to him couldn't help but sneer, and then said with disdain: "Our Du family will still ask for your pills, let me tell you the truth, the purpose of my visit this time is to make a deal with you, as long as you are willing to give up the two spirit stone mines, our Du family can give up 20% of the market price to provide you with pills." ”
Looking at Du Huan's expression of charity, the second elder couldn't help but be really angry, so he said coldly: "Then thank you Du family for your kindness, but this spirit stone mine is a family property, and I don't count it alone, so please go back." ”
The second housekeeper was stunned for a moment and said: "This is the biggest concession made by our Du family, the second elder can discuss it with the other elders first, otherwise, after this battle is over, we can also go to your Qin family to talk." ”
The second elder brushed his sleeves and said: "You don't have to mention this matter again, our Qin family will not agree, in the future, our Qin family will have its own Dan Master, and the matter of the pill will not bother your Du family." ”
Du Huan also got up at this time, shook the folding fan in his hand and said: "Just with your Qin family's Dan Master, I think the pills that can refine the lower grade of the Xuan level are enough, since you don't eat toast, just wait to drink the punishment bar." ”
The second elder glared at this time, pointed at Du Huan and said, "Boy, if you dare to speak to Lao Tzu in this tone again, Lao Tzu will take good care of your stinky mouth for your Du family." ”
Du Huan wanted to say more, but the second steward hurriedly pulled him to say goodbye to the second elder and left in a hurry, and when he walked out of the Qin family's camp, there were faint words like "veteran ruffian" from Du Huan's mouth.
The second elder hahadaxiao said: "Lao Tzu is a ruffian, when Lao Tzu cut down Hu people, your grandfather was still in the crotch of your ancestors' pants, grandma's, I have been suffocated in front of the juniors all these years, and I am still scolding people in this barracks." ”
Several beetles drifted into the camp with the wind, and then flew into the alchemy's tent and carriage respectively following the fragrance of the elixir.
"Oops," Zuo Yi felt a little stinging pain in his neck at this time, and slapped it with his hand, feeling a worm, but as soon as he let go, the beetle flew away with a swish.
Then he flew towards Qin Wen, at this time the pill was about to be baked, and the Yuan Huo of the three elders also withdrew into the dantian, Qin Wen heard Zuo Yi's voice, and he was vigilant, and flicked the beetle that flew over with one finger.
However, the beetle only swirled in the air, and then pounced on the three elders who were pranayama, Qin Wen couldn't help but be stunned for a moment, ordinary insects couldn't withstand his own bomb at all, and seeing that the insect was about to fly down on the face of the three elders, he casually used his vitality to snar.
The insect struggled twice, but failed to break through Qin Wen's vitality, so he stayed quietly in the vitality, and Qin Wen asked Zuo Yi, "Do you know what kind of insect this is?"
Zuo Yi shook his head, rubbed his bitten neck with his hand and said: "I don't know, it's a little painful when biting, but it's itchy at this time, it should be poisonous, but I didn't slap it to death, it doesn't seem to be an ordinary bug." ”
At this time, Qin Wen's index finger of his right hand popped out a little yuan fire, and then it was on the beetle's body, and after the beetle struggled for a while, it turned into black ashes.
Zuo Yi suddenly felt that his neck was getting more and more itchy at this time, so he scratched it twice with his hand, and he felt a little swollen, and the vitality in the dantian did not subside the swelling, so he took out a detoxification pill from his jade bottle, took it, and said to Qin Wen: "The toxicity of this insect is not small, but why didn't you touch it two days ago?"
Qin Wen looked at his increasingly swollen neck at this time and asked, "What pill did you take just now?"
Zuo Yi also felt that something was wrong, and gradually the breath of the dantian was a little chaotic, which was a symptom of deepening poisoning, so he hurriedly said: "I took the detoxification pill that I refined myself, this insect is a little strange, and my detoxification pill doesn't work." ”
At this time, the third elder also opened his eyes, looked at Zuo Yi, and said with some surprise: "What's wrong with your neck?"
At this time, Qin Wen lightly squeezed a little blood from the red and swollen area and dripped it on the cap of a jade bottle, and then replied: "I was bitten by a poisonous insect, Third Elder, when you fought with the Hu people before, did you encounter this kind of poisonous insect?"
The third elder shook his head and said: "No, there are very few poisonous insects here, and they are generally ordinary insects, and there are not many that can bite the flesh of the monks, if you really encounter poisonous insects with aura, you will be fine if you eat some antidote pills, by the way, Zuo Worship, why didn't you eat the antidote pill?"
At this time, Zuo Yi knew that this insect was definitely not an ordinary spirit worm, and the detoxification pill issued in the military camp could not be compared with the one he had refined, and now that his neck had swollen into a bag, the vitality in the dantian was even more powerful, so he hurriedly took out some pill bottles from himself.
Qin Wen took out the refined detoxification pill from his body at this time, then scraped a little powder and mixed it with the blood on the bottle cap, and said to Zuo Yi: "Don't take other pills first, so as not to aggravate the toxicity, I'll take a look at the toxicity of this beetle first." ”
As he spoke, the blood mixed with the end of the medicine had turned purple-brown, and Qin Wen's complexion suddenly became solemn, and he said to the third elder: "You first use your vitality to force Zuo to worship and force poison, and I will go to the second elder to ask for some medicinal materials." ”
At this time, the third elder also knew that the matter was serious, so he hurriedly pinched Zuo Yi's wrist, and a stream of vitality entered his body, slowly controlling the toxicity of entering the body first.
When the second elder saw Qin Wen hurriedly getting down from the carriage, he hurriedly stepped forward and asked, "What's the matter?"
Qin Wen nodded and said, "Zuo Feng was bitten by poisonous insects, now I want to refine some special antidote pills, there are too few types of medicinal materials on the carriage, I want to ask you to go to the quartermaster to get some more, by the way, are there any people outside who have been bitten now?"
The second elder wrote down the medicinal materials to be taken, then shook his head and said, "No one in the camp said that they had encountered poisonous insects, you wait, I will go and get the medicinal materials." After speaking, he hurried towards the camp of the Chinese army.
After Qin Wen got into the carriage, he first baked the pills in the Dan furnace, then put them in the jade bottle, and then began to clean up the residue in the Dan furnace.
At this time, the second elder had already taken the medicinal materials, and Qin Wen saw that Zuo Yi was still awake and should be able to support the refining of the pill, so he quickly put the medicinal materials into the Dan furnace with a technique, and then said to the second elder: "Bring out the Yuan Huo, first refine a furnace of detoxification pills." ”
As soon as Qin Wen's words fell, he suddenly heard a terrible cry from the Du family's camp: "Ah! My thighs are swollen, swollen, come and get the antidote pill." ”