"Li Daoyou, it's really good that you came here in person. Han Kang was overjoyed when he saw Li Zhen.

Elder Qi glanced at him meaningfully and bowed his head silently.

"What's the situation now, is the Chamber of Commerce team here ready to go?" asked Li Zhen knowingly.

"Not yet, we are waiting for the Taoist friends to send the tea turnip, so that we can deal with the Tai Sui spores inside. Han Kang said.

"Speaking of which, Li Daoyou came to the news earlier and said that it had been refined?" Elder Qi asked.

Li Zhen said: "Fortunately, the first batch of tea turnips has been successfully completed, and I have also added some semi-finished products on the road, and in time, the second batch can be completed." ”

All of these were ordered by the Chamber of Commerce, and there was no payment for the agreed cooperation.

However, Li Zhen did not have to produce the materials himself, and he also obtained the benefits of Xiaolan Island and Jiulingmen, which was much more cost-effective than ordinary commissioned refining.

Li Zhen took out the finished product he had refined, filled it with hundreds of copies, and placed them in front of the two of them.

Elder Qi summoned the two of them and ordered, "Leave twenty bottles here, and distribute the rest according to the instructions conveyed before." ”

"Yes!" the deacon of the Chamber of Commerce immediately complied.

After doing this, Elder Qi said cryptically: "Our people are ready, and when we find out the situation in front, we can set off." ”

The so-called finding out the situation in front is the result of those stones that throw stones to ask for directions.

In the past few days, they have mainly focused on gathering intelligence.

It is said that sharpening knives does not mistakenly chop wood, and these preliminary preparations are very necessary, which can not only greatly reduce the risk of them entering it, but also find the key to solving the problem, so as not to act blindly.

"Li Daoyou came from afar, let's rest for a while, but if you have time and energy, you still have to hurry up and continue to make this thing.

If the agreed share is exceeded, we will purchase the treasure building according to the market price, and there is no upper limit on the quantity. ”

Elder Qi said again.

Tea turnip is a good thing, and in addition to being used to solve this incident, they also plan to take the opportunity to stock up on a batch in case they need it.

Li Zhen nodded: "The second batch is expected to be completed in two or three months, I hope Shi Jizi will not succeed so easily." ”

Speaking of this, Elder Qi couldn't help but ask Han Kang, "In your opinion, how long will it take him to complete this ritual of sacrificing the Great Dan?"

Han Kang hesitated: "The specific situation is still unknown at the moment, and I can't judge." ”

Elder Qi looked at him and was slightly dissatisfied: "You said so a few days ago, and now that you see the scene inside, why is it still like this?"

Han Kang was embarrassed, if this was changed to suspicious, maybe he would suspect that he intended to protect his master, but he really didn't know.

This Li Zhen was about to help him speak: "Elder Qi doesn't know, alchemy medicine is the same as our perfume and incense making, each with its own quality and timing.

For example, the letter spirit incense that has begun to spread now, Jiazi day to save incense products, Bingzi day to grind, Wuzi day and in one place, Gengzi day pills, for the Temple of Heaven, Renzi day into the gourd hanging, the complete process, is a full sixty days, two months.

And some incense products, such as ambergris, need to be brewed in the body of sperm whales for many years, drifting in the sea for hundreds of years, hundreds of years, before they begin to form.

There is also a tea and turnip incense that I am refining now, leaving semi-finished products on hand, and with the spiritual materials provided by your building, it will be completed in a few days, but the second batch will have to start from scratch, which will take nearly 100 days.

I expect that alchemy is similar, it requires the right time and place, from 7 days, 36 days, 7749 days, 9981 days to more than a year, ranging from several years, and it is not possible to generalize. ”

Han Kang said: "What Li Daoyou said is very true, I also have to see clearly the alchemy techniques and general arrangements adopted by the master before I can make a conclusion." ”

When he said this, he suddenly hesitated: "But ......"

"But what?" Elder Qi asked strangely, at this time, what else was there to swallow?

Han Kang had no choice but to say: "But in my opinion, what he used was not the ordinary fire refining method, but the wood refining method. ”

"Oh?" Elder Qi was surprised.

Li Zhen also showed a somewhat interested look.

Han Kang was a disciple of Shi Jizi and knew something about his methods, so this was a rare opportunity to spy on the secret methods of the Nine Spirits Sect.

"What is fire and what is wood?" he asked.

The words have already been spoken, and Han Kang is not good at cherishing himself, and said frankly: "Based on your experience, it is most common to refine the elixir with fire, and the one who is the Gainy Pill belongs to gold, and the saying of the golden pill has been around for a long time, and all kinds of spiritual materials and treasures also need to be smelted with fire power to catalyze the reaction of various things.

The alchemy that is usually seen refers to this technique......"

When he said this, he roughly explained, it turns out that the alchemy that usually opens the furnace and needs to be ignited to heat up is collectively called the method of fire refining.

But unlike what ordinary people imagine, all the pills are so refined, this is only one of the mainstream categories, not all.

Some elixirs can be refined without this kind of firepower.

Li Zhen said: "Indeed, the common elixirs such as us are all refined by lead, mercury, copper and stone, and most of them are refined by fire. ”

Han Kang said: "That is a metaphor for the ancient Dan Dao, which has been passed down in later generations, and many ordinary people have painted cats and tigers, mistakenly thinking that ordinary cinnabar, mercury and other things can be taken, causing tragedy."

I Dandao keeps pace with the times, tackles the way of Qihuang, and turns medicine into medicine, which is to explore from the field of medicine.

Nowadays, most of the elixirs are plants and trees, and the alchemy techniques are becoming more and more abundant.

The method of fire refining is still the same as in the past, while the method of water refining is boiling and decoction, blending and blending, and the method of soil refining is cellar fermentation, cultivation and planting, and the method of wood refining is closely related to the genus of plants and trees......

In short, the essence of the Dan Dao is the method of refining the essence of the muddy and the fine, which is to extract the essence of heaven and earth from the chaos and use it for human use.

For example, that fruit tree, born and grown in Si, absorbs the essence of heaven, earth, sun and moon, whether it is air, sunlight, water and soil, or rotting corpses, the feces and filth can be transformed, and after years of growth, it bears sweet fruits.

As the so-called Tao method of nature, this fruit is the true pill of wood refining in nature, so wood refining is a refining method that uses planting trees as a metaphor to extract nutrients from the leyline compost. ”

Li Zhen was shocked and thought of the thousands of corpses piled up in the inner valley.

Wood Forge ......

To put it bluntly, isn't it just planting Tai Sui to make it blossom and bear fruit?

Normal Tai Sui will not bloom, and Ganoderma lucidum mushrooms will not bloom.

However, if it is mutated in a special way, it may indeed be able to blossom and bear fruit.

That fruit is the Great Dan that Shi Jizi wants to refine!

Han Kang also said: "The second refining of civil engineering is closely related, and there may be a complex method that connects the earth's leylines and makes use of them, the way of the master is broad and profound, and a few of our disciples have only learned a little bit of the surface, but the bystanders are clear, and there are still traces of many things."

As long as someone can explore the situation in the depths of the inner valley and let me see the general arrangement, I should be able to guess his alchemy ideas and make a judgment. ”

Li Zhen glanced at him, and stopped talking.

I know what's going on inside, but on the bright side, I shouldn't know it.

"It's not okay to go on like this, it's still too passive. ”

Although the Chamber of Commerce had begun to prepare for the action, Li Zhen repeatedly thought of the scene he had seen out of his body before, and he felt a little uneasy.

At this moment, a noisy sound suddenly sounded outside, and then footsteps hurried.

It was the steward of the Chamber of Commerce, with a bit of solemnity on his face: "Elder Qi, another batch of loose cultivators have returned, this time it is reported that they have gone deep into the inner valley and seen a large tomb bag as high as a hundred zhang!"

It exploded, and it was almost all corpses!"

"What?" all the people present looked surprised, and even Li Zhen was surprised.

The grave bag, he knew, but it wasn't a hundred feet high.

Could it be ......

"They are exaggerating, the hundred-foot-high grave bag is full of corpses, and the number must be at least hundreds of millions. ”

Han Kang scoffed.

Many people have no idea about quantity, and they just open their mouths.

A conservative estimate shows that the space of a certain size may not fit hundreds of living people, but it can fit hundreds of corpses.

If it is highly corrupt, melted into mud, and meat sauce, this number can be increased to three or five hundred, or as many as thousands.

A hundred-zhang high tomb, not to mention a square mountain, up to a million zhang square, at least 100,000 square meters, hundreds of thousands of square meters, right?

How many corpses does that have to hold?

This number is far greater than the intuitive judgment of ordinary people, because ordinary people's intuition is calculated according to living people, and no matter how much they rub shoulders, it is impossible to have too much density.

Moreover, there were not so many ordinary laborers who migrated to the island, and their total number was only about 100,000.

Pressing this thought, the three of them rushed outside.

"Ah......h

On the beach, one person struggled in pain, while the others avoided it, all of them looking terrified.

The manager of the Chamber of Commerce holding the incense burner next to him shouted anxiously: "You bear with it, otherwise, it will get more and more serious!"

The man's body was covered with dense sarcomas, like white mushrooms growing on his shoulders, and on his hands, the flesh was rotten, ulcerating and pus, like smallpox herpes, and he looked horrible and disgusting.

Fortunately, after all, it was still easy to use, and several people pressed down the struggling person at the same time, and hurriedly took the opportunity to drive the incense burner forward, and the smoke was fumigated on it.

Suddenly, the growing sarcoma shriveled and dried up, fell to the ground, and turned into debris.

Seeing this, the deacon breathed a sigh of relief, plucked up the courage to step forward, and fed him some powder.

Tea turnip incense can be used both internally and externally, and it has a strong restraint effect on the many subspecies produced by its infection and mutation, coupled with the monk's own recovery and perception ability, it can completely eliminate hidden dangers.

But the crowd did not fully relax, and soon attracted attention to an object.

"What's that?"

On the beach, several humanoid sac-like objects are scattered, which look like skin peeled from a human body, but the texture is rough, and it does not look like human skin, but is closer to the bark of a tree.

They were scattered like dead branches and leaves, looking like slain corpses.

But the strange thing is that instead of flesh and intestines, it is sand stained with blood.

When Li Zhen saw it, he was also a little confused.

The cultivators were questioned and said, "We don't know, these monsters have been following us since the island!"

"Yes, we have been attacked by them one after another in the past few days, and at first I thought it was that kind of black devil zombie, but I didn't expect it to become like this after killing. ”

"It's not very powerful, but it's really annoying. ”

Li Zhen looked at Elder Qi and reminded, "There seems to be some flesh and blood in it, it should be from the same source as those walking corpses before, but there has been an unknown mutation. ”

Variation......

Han Kang seemed to have thought of something, and his expression was moved.

"It seems that the matter inside must be resolved as soon as possible. ”

Elder Qi came to a conclusion.

In addition to rapid reproduction, Jitu Tai Sui also has another major characteristic, which is corruption and mutation.

It can reproduce many substances through spores, and has a complex structure.

Letting Shi Jizi do whatever he wants inside, God knows what terrible situation will be created.

As far as is known, the people of Jiulingmen used the corpse of Xing Feng, who had died in the past, for experiments, and used it as the mother body to cultivate the Black Demon Zombie!

This is the thing that Han Kang regrets and regrets the most, perhaps from that time on, they have abandoned all conscience and bottom line.

While this may yield results, it can also lead to unimaginable trouble.

However, Li Zhen did not take any position to urge, he was a participant in the incident, but he was not the person directly responsible.

The obligation stipulated in the agreement is also to refine tea and turnip incense through the spiritual materials provided by the Chamber of Commerce to ensure their in-depth exploration.

Refining your own incense is the main business.

So, after the conversation, he went back to the room arranged by the Chamber of Commerce alone and went to retreat to make incense.

Elder Qi and the others couldn't take care of him for a while, and were busy arranging manpower to strictly check the entry and exit personnel and clean up the symptoms of infection.

This spore can parasitize in flesh and blood, and its vitality is very tenacious, but fortunately, the Chamber of Commerce has obtained the tea turnip, which has an excellent restraint effect on it.

As long as you take precautions, you can still control it.

But it is not a way to continue like this, and those casual cultivators have suffered heavy casualties and have begun to lose their usefulness.

Some of them have made great gains and are not going to take any more risks.

This method of using stones to ask for directions will not last long after all.

That night, Elder Qi decided to personally lead the team into the valley and invited Li Zhen and Han Kang to go with him.

"As the so-called bell unlocking still needs to tie the bell, we must find Shi Jizi and make further plans. ”

Li Zhen readily agreed: "That's right, I also want to meet him and see what he wants to do." ”

At that moment, led by Elder Qi, Li Zhen, and Han Kang, several chambers of commerce built a foundation to worship, and the elite team composed of scattered cultivation masters set off.

Prepared for their preparations, they followed the route cleared by the chess pieces and headed straight for the Inner Valley, where the Great Tomb Bag was called.