Li Zhen experimented with the deep changes of the form, and all kinds of things manifested in the smoke that lingered around him.

This is essentially the same as the change principle used by Yun Dun, but the incense used by Li Zhen is an unknown thing, and it has the characteristics of integrating into the divine soul and controlling it freely, which is far more handy than expected.

After a few moments, a sword, spear, sword and halberd and a bronze mirror appeared on the arm of the boy Faxiang, of which the main weapon was a pointed halberd held in both hands.

A cloud of clouds and mist changes to glow, stepping on colorful auspicious clouds, and more golden clouds turn into cloaks, fluttering more than ten zhang.

"I don't have supernatural skills, but I ...... fancy in Huli"

"But don't really say it, it's a bit of a bluffing posture, but you can rely on your mouth to say don't do it, and if you do it, you have to show your stuffing. ”

Li Zhen smiled and commented to himself, who called himself talented, and the low-level realm had some of the characteristics of a great monk?

However, he didn't think there was anything wrong with this, after all, since he started cultivating, it had been less than two months.

I'm just a kid.

After doing this, Li Zhen's mind moved, remembering the current image, and then the Dharma phase disappeared and returned to the form of a void spirit body.

He went home first, and in a room in Hanxiang Pavilion, he found a few large vats prepared in advance, and prepared to do an experiment that was not good for daytime.

The vats had been sealed in advance, and the edges of the wooden lids were smeared with a kind of architectural clay to create a confined space.

His spirit body drilled into it violently, and what he saw in the vat was the ashes of the spirit incense that had been ignited in advance and had been smoldered to ashes.

In the divine sense, the smoke is misty, filling the tank, and you can also use the talent of smelling incense to smell the strong smell and condense it.

But the incense is not visible, as if it has completely disappeared because too much time has passed.

"Did it spill through the tank, or did it disappear out of thin air?"

Li Zhen pondered this question.

If it is the former, they can continue to experiment by constantly trying to seal and imprison them, and artificially create a cultivation condition comparable to the blessed land of the Cave Heaven.

But if it's the latter, it won't work.

Immediately afterwards, Li Zhen drilled into several other large vat to take a look.

These vats have already been marked, and they were lit at noon, Wei, Shen, You, Xu, and Hai for many hours, and they were specially busy by the river for a while before coming back, and now it is just the time of the child.

Through this method, he finally confirmed that the incense would continue to overflow outward over time, and then fade into nothingness.

That is, it can either penetrate the tank or disappear into thin air.

"The previous way of thinking doesn't seem to work. ”

However, the original preface of the book "Xiangxian" contains, "Poems" and "Rites" called burnt firewood, Xiao Yan sacrifices, steaming to enjoy the fen, sheng pepper Xin, up to the gods through the faint, its origin is long. ”

This seems to indicate that incense can be passed through and transcend the physical barrier. ”

"And color is emptiness, emptiness is color, matter seems to be tangible, but the essence is still empty, and it is normal that it cannot be stopped. ”

"But the mechanism of this disappearance out of thin air is a bit inexplicable, did those spiritual incense incense deterioration, disappeared from my perception, or entered another space-time dimension?"

"That's a very different meaning!"

Li Zhen deeply understands that if it is deteriorated and cannot be used, then everything should be suspended.

But if it's the latter, that means......

You can create the way of incense, because all living beings burn incense and light candles, the more the merrier!

The premise is to find a way to enter that space-time dimension and be able to absorb those fragrances.

Li Zhen drilled into the last vat, lit the Xinling incense that had been placed in it but had not yet been used with the fire bud branch prepared in advance, and personally guarded it for re-verification.

It took a full hour to witness the complete process of burning, diffusion, and disappearance of incense, and to compare it with the previous results.

Li Zhen did not put these things into words, but memorized them in the depths of his own mind, and prepared to make other attempts in the future.

"These little experiments have been done, and the next step is to play big. ”

"The ancients once said that the immortal ascended to the shape of the stagnation and difficulty in getting out, and the famous incense must be burned more than 100 to support it before leaving, which may be a vague death, but according to the literal meaning of the literal translation, the immortal soars to the body is heavy, and before leaving, it is necessary to burn more than 100 catties of famous incense, with the help of smoke to lift the ......"

"Really fucking can play, burn more than 100 catties of spices in one go?"

What Li Zhen is thinking of now is some legends related to incense in the ancient gods and monsters.

"However, during the Sui Emperor period, bonfires were built in all courtyards of the palace on Chinese New Year's Eve, and agarwood and various spices were burned as firewood, and the flames were several feet high, and the aroma could be smelled for tens of miles. ”

"It is a luxury to be able to burn more than 200 carloads of agarwood and more than 200 stone spices in one night. ”

"When will I set up a name for an incense festival and burn hundreds of cars of agarwood to try?"

Li Zhen longed that the spiritual materials could not be burned for the time being, but the mortal materials could be tried.

......

"What is that?"

The next day, Li Zhen was drinking tea and reading at home, and mentioned the matter to his wife by the way.

The ninth princess was extremely curious and asked him for details.

Li Zhen said: "Burnt wood and incense were originally integrated, and the ancient ancestors did not know how to extract spices, and most of them were replaced by burning mugwort pepper and cinnamon, so the incense culture actually originated from the practice of burning plants and trees in the primitive tribal era, which was already reflected in the ancient witchcraft prevailing and when all beings were foolish. ”

The two worlds have something in common, and the way in which the common people use spices is indeed much the same.

This has to mention the effects of spices in repelling insects, warding off evil spirits, and even healing. ”

"Before there were nests, the ancestors lived in caves, which were protected from wind, frost, rain, snow and wild beasts. ”

"But most of the caves are damp and dark, and there may be snakes, insects, rats and ants hidden, what should I do?"

The ninth princess remembered the effect of the spirit incense, and couldn't help but say, "Burn incense?"

Li Zhen said: "Yes, it is to burn incense, to be precise, it is to smoke with smoke." ”

The book "Xiangxian" once recorded the source of the spiritual incense.

It is rumored that during the time of Emperor Ming of the Han Dynasty, the real Yan Ji lived in the stone kiln of Sangong Mountain, and the bitter snakes and beasts were evil, so he went down the mountain and lived in the nunnery of Huayin County.

After living for three years, suddenly there were three people who went to the nunnery to spend the night, and talked about the good stone kiln of Sangong Mountain at night, but there were evil demons invading the inside.

One humane: "I have a strange fragrance, which can save the suffering of the world, and the way of burning is natural and mysterious, and I can ascend to the heavenly realm." ”

Real people get incense, re-enter the mountain, sit and burn this incense poison, snakes and beasts are all silent.

Suddenly, one day, the Taoist sent out the back piano, came out of the void, wrote this incense recipe on the stone wall, and rode away in the wind.

This is a strange story, ignoring the story behind the Taoist people who spread the back of the qin, came out of the void, and wrote the incense recipe on the stone wall, just looking at the front, it is clear that it is what the cave dwellers in the primitive era will do.

Li Zhen said: "The original fragrance is just mugwort, pepper and other things, and even dry firewood and withered grass picked up anywhere, the purpose is to burn out smoke, drive away snakes, insects, rats and ants, and clean the environment." ”

The ancestors did not know the reason, but instinctively remembered that burning wood and incense could drive away evil spirits, and perfectly combined it with the bonfires and sacrifices of the tribal era. ”

"Bonfire, sacrifice?" the ninth princess heard the key words.

Li Zhen said: "Yes, it is a bonfire and sacrifice." ”

"Incense culture comes from the gift of burnt firewood, the so-called burnt firewood, is an ancient ritual of sacrificing to the sky, the jade silk sacrifice and other things are placed in the accumulated salary and burned, it is not difficult to see the legacy of bonfire culture from here, the ancients believed that burning incense and lighting candles can pray to the heavens, communicate with the gods, and the ritual of burning incense and sacrificing in Xuanxin country has also been around for a long time. ”

"There is no shortage of fire worship religions in the world, and there are many bonfire festivals in folk culture, which can actually be regarded as the same source. ”

This can be regarded as the predecessor of incense culture, after the civilization of later generations, because people instinctively like incense and disgusted with smell, and gradually develop real spices, but they often abandon the basics, focus on its surface, and only care about the smell itself emitted by spices and incense. ”

"With the increase of spice varieties, the aroma of incense is more and more abundant, perhaps in a certain era in later generations, ordinary people can prepare flavors, fragrances, perfumes and other things on a large scale, so that the fragrance is full of the four wilds, everywhere, but on the contrary, it forgets its roots, just as a vassal and elegant plaything. ”

"But ......"

"If you want to speak of elegance, speak of the highest elegance. ”

"If you want to play retro, you can restore the most ancient antique!"

"What kind of powder to scrape, when the heirloom, the little family spirit, incense, incense, fragrant soup bathing, perfume spraying, not to mention the toiling public can take care of, the real man should burn firewood and carry forward my ancient tribal sacrificial culture!"

The ninth princess suddenly realized and worshipped: "The husband is worthy of being a master of incense, and it makes sense!"

"But it sounds like a lot of money, and it's not easy for us to save up so much material for an incense burning event. ”

Li Zhen said: "In the past, there was no incense bureau, and the development of incense wood materials was not enough, so it was difficult to look at. ”

"But if you work hard to accumulate from now on, you can still think about it. ”

I'm afraid that this matter will have to fall on the Incense Bureau, and only by using this agency can it be convenient to collect materials.

In the afternoon of the same day, Li Zhen really summoned Pei Shilang from the Incense Affairs Bureau for questioning, mentioning the preparation of the incense burning event

When Pei Shilang heard this, his expression was a little inexplicable.

He always felt that something was wrong, but Li Zhen was an incense master canonized by the immortal master, and he was very authoritative, and where could he say anything against it.

After all, I still have less knowledge, and I don't know what sacrificial rituals or the secrets of communicating the avenue of heaven and earth are hidden in the matter of burning wood and burning incense.

After thinking about it, Pei Shilang said: "It should still be feasible, it is not easy to buy it directly on the market, so I will requisition some from all over the place, and then requisition and send people to cut down ...... mountain."

Li Zhen listened to it and was a little reluctant: "I have a proposal." ”

Pei Shilang said: "Master Horse, please speak." ”

Li Zhen said: "I will hand over the Li family's incense shop to you to operate, and if there is any use involving my side in the future, I will withdraw it from it." ”

Li Zhen knew that this was actually a bargain for the Xiang Affairs Bureau, because in the future, he might use it a lot, a lot......

However, Li's Xiangfang is not completely assetless, on the contrary, Li Zhen has been operating hard over the years, and has opened the market among dignitaries and nobles with a series of products such as soap, perfume, incense, etc., and has successfully mastered the right to speak about the spice culture in this world.

If the officials of the Incense Affairs Bureau are effective, they can completely monopolize the entire Xuanzhou spice market and continue to reap huge profits from it.

The cultural industry is a good business, and when the related culture flourishes, the folk businessmen and people will follow suit, and there will be more people who make a living by picking incense and making incense.

Of course, these are all things that Li Zhen has made in the past ten years, and later he simply took the initiative to sacrifice the immortal master, changed his wife and concubine, and was peaceful and rich.

When Pei Shilang heard this, he suddenly realized, but he mistook this matter for Li Zhen to set up a name and take the opportunity to make money.

Lee's incense shop handed over to the Incense Bureau?

It's almost the same as handing over the Incense Bureau to the Li family!

But he's happy to.

Doing things for Li's Xiangfang is much better than being an official of the Incense Affairs Bureau.

Li Yuma is a celebrity in front of the immortal master, and he can't be mistaken about what the Incense Affairs Bureau was established for.

But this kind of thing is not easy to break, Li Yuma is what he says.

At the moment, he promised: "Please rest assured, you have entrusted this matter to us, it is an honor for us to handle it, and we will definitely handle it for you before the end of this year." ”

Li Zhen asked, "How much can you get?"

Pei Shilang said: "How can you have three hundred carts of fragrant wood to be worthy of the pomp and circumstance in the house." ”

Li Zhen said: "Three hundred cars ......"

Pei Shilang said: "Pei is willing to set up a military order, at least 300 carts, and they are all serious carriages, one cart pulls more than 500 catties, and never uses mule carts or the like." ”

"The fragrant wood used must also be high-fat agarwood, if you need other varieties, you can add red sandalwood, pear products. ”

Li Zhen was extremely satisfied, and nodded: "By the way, add a few of the sugar maples in the south, the Incense Affairs Bureau was originally to supervise this matter, and I will write off the account for you if you get these things to offset the tribute amount." ”

Pei Shilang said: "Thank you for your compassion, in this way, you will be exempted from more than ten carts of incense firewood." ”

He is a clever man, which adds a fragrant name to these things that Li Zhen wants.

Isn't the fragrant wood used as firewood for firewood to be burned?

Li Zhen said: "As for the finished spices, there should be 200 stones enough, half of them are ordinary agarwood and the Xinling incense produced in the workshop, and other kinds of incense can be used, but it is really not good, cinnamon branches, cloves, licorice, lychee shells and other things are also possible." ”

Pei Shilang was so moved that he was about to cry, this is because the master of the horse is worried that his subordinates will be difficult, how can he make the incense burning event planned in the mansion so poor, this will be laughed at.

I immediately made up my mind to collect enough fine spices, and 200 stones was not enough, at least 300 stones, so as to reflect the ability of the incense bureau.

But this kind of thing doesn't need to be set up anymore, it's not that I'm afraid that it will be difficult to complete, but that the horse master has already opened the golden mouth, and he will refute it immediately, which is called blind recklessness.

It's better to do it quietly and find a chance to make a surprise.

After talking about this matter, Li Zhen said again: "By the way, among the spiritual materials sent last time, the magic finger wood, cold fragrant fruit, silver silk grass, and five spirit flowers are useful, and I am ready to give them to the ancestor and include them in the list of tributes." ”

Everything has been laid out, and it's time for a wave of harvest.