Chapter 68: The Risks of Wine Tasting
Ding Xing will not provide spirit wine to the ghost market for a long time, he did not express his attitude towards the ghost bamboo girl.
Although Ding Xing believes that the ghost market is a perfect channel for selling alcohol, he is not a mortal merchant and cannot be engaged in selling alcohol all year round.
When he tries out the 'Eight Fruit Flower Porridge Wine', and then helps a Dao Scissor turn into a ghost body, he will definitely leave Dust Mountain.
As for whether to maintain this path in the future after leaving, we will consider it separately in the future.
Ding Xing just wants to deal with the matter in front of him first.
When he handed over the treasure to the Ghost Bamboo Girl, he casually asked, "How many fellow Daoists live in the Ghost Mansion in the south?"
The ghost bamboo girl knew in detail: "There are almost a thousand of the permanent fellow Daoists, and there are a group of wandering lonely souls and wild ghosts outside the mountain, about four or five hundred, their ghost mansion is next to the demon nest, and they have to encounter several beast disasters every year, they can't cope with it, they often flee outside the mountain, and only dare to move back after a few years." ”
Beast plague is the hunting behavior of demon beasts that live in groups.
There are no demon cultivators in the Rolling Dust Mountain, except for a very small number of demon clans with great spiritual intelligence, the rest of the races are generally semi-ignorant, and it is very fierce to fight each other.
It's just that the ghost cultivator can't reproduce, and a batch of demon beasts are plagued every year, and the number is naturally not large.
Ding Xing inquired about the situation of ghost cultivation, which was actually related to a private matter, and he asked again: "Among these fellow practitioners, are there any refining experts?"
The ghost bamboo girl nodded: "There are several of them, you want to find them to cast magic weapons?"
Ding Xing then took out two broken magic weapons, one of which was the cicada wing knife of Pharmacist Fan, which was broken by the paper soldiers under the moon, and Ding Xing kept it on his body.
The other is Ding Xing's short axe, he has been running around for half a year, and has encountered several fights on the way, the short axe is a medium-grade magic weapon, the power is not enough, and it was scrapped when meeting the enemy.
This axe can be regarded as a lot of disasters and difficulties, Ding Xing was about to improve its grade, so he asked the ghost bamboo girl for help: "I want to return these two remnants to the furnace to refine and fuse them into one, but I don't have a deep understanding of the refining method, please ask the ghost bamboo girl to find a ghost cultivator to cast, after the matter is completed, I thank you with jujube nucleus liquid!"
"Cast as a knife, or cast as an axe?"
"Axe!"
Ding Xing told him to finish this extra errand before he parted ways with the ghost bamboo girl.
When he returned to the cave where the Moon Ring Sword was forbidden, Ding Xing began to work on the trial of 'Eight Fruit Flower Porridge'.
This ancient wine recipe records nine kinds of wine materials, eight of which are spirit fruits, and the types are exactly the same as the eight fruits used to refine the golden dew liquid.
The last kind of wine is Linghua, because the wine recipe of 'Eight Fruit Flower Porridge' lacks the name of Linghua, Ding Xing has no other way but to use the method of casting a net in a large area, he through the ghost bamboo girl, from the ghost market in exchange for more than 100 kinds of Linghua and Lingguo produced in the Moon Paper Country, he is ready to test one after another.
He has leaf worms to use, and the cellaring period of any spirit wine can be shortened to half a month, but the leaf worms only swallow one wine vessel at a time, according to this progress, he wants to make more than 100 kinds of flowers and fruits into a kind of spirit wine, and the cellaring period will take several years.
In fact, if the 'Eight Fruit Flower Porridge' can be finally tested, let alone a few years, even if it is decades, Ding Xing feels that it is very worthwhile.
But wine tasting isn't just about time.
There are also huge unknown risks.
Different from refining 'Requiem' and 'Worm's Tears', 'Eight Fruit Flower Porridge' needs to be tasted by Ding Xing to verify the efficacy.
Every time he used a flower and fruit to refine an unknown new wine, he had to swallow it to verify the effect.
Don't look at the eight spirit fruits of the golden dew liquid, they are all great tonics, but if you add an unfamiliar flower to it, it may mutate into a great harm.
No one can guess the exact extent of the physical damage.
Therefore, before tasting wine, Ding Xing must be fully prepared for self-help.
First of all, Ding Xing should instruct the little book demon to summon the book beetle swarm, and every time a new wine is produced, let the book beetle swarm try it first, and wait to confirm that the book beetle swarm is not worried about their lives, and Ding Xing can go into battle by himself.
Secondly, during the drinking period, Ding Xing may have a series of unknown changes such as poisoning, coma, and injury, so it is naturally essential to reserve a batch of spirit wine for detoxification, calming, and self-cultivation.
It seems that tasting wine is like a self-inflicted bad luck, and it is indeed true.
However, from ancient times to the present, there has never been a shortage of monks who are willing to endure hardships and mold, and they are full of fearless faith, risking their lives to try new pills and new wines over and over again, which has led to a variety of far-reaching ancient recipes and ancient wines.
If it weren't for this group of brave pioneers, then the immortal cultivation world might have died out long ago, and there would not be today's prosperity.
Of course, these sages took the risk of trying pills and tasting wine, not all out of selflessness, mainly for attractive rewards, after all, as long as they can create a treasure like Xuanzang Pill, the benefits are endless.
To put it mildly, it can determine the length of a monk's path.
To put it mildly, it can affect the rise and fall of a sect.
This is not an exaggeration.
This time, Ding Xing tried the 'Eight Fruit Flower Porridge Wine', his starting point was for his own path, if this new wine was really born in his hands, whether it would bring a big storm to the Wei Kingdom Immortal Cultivation Realm in the future, he had no way to calculate.
Anyway, let's try it first.
Only by trying out the 'Eight Fruit Flower Porridge Wine' can he have the certainty of impacting the Xuanfetal period.
In this way, when Ding Xing prepared everything, he locked himself in the cave and began his great cause of creating wine.
Half a month.
Ding Xing used the most common 'red flower' in the country of moon paper, mixed with golden dew and eight fruits, and came out of the cellar with the first new wine.
He looked at the color of the wine, it was full of dark red, and there were particles floating in the wine, which matched the appearance characteristics of 'flower porridge', and he first caught a few book silverfish for tasting, and after feeding them, he found that there were blood spots on the body of the worms.
This is a symptom of poisoning.
Ding Xing gave up directly and did not try the wine by himself.
He didn't need to try again at all, because the spiritual wine that improved his cultivation was not harmful to all flesh and blood.
The poisoning of the book silverfish shows that 'carnal flower' is not the only flower material of 'Baguohua porridge wine'.
A month later.
Ding Xing mixed the eight fruits of the golden dew with 'laurel', and the second new wine was out of the cellar.
This kind of laurel flower, Ding Xing is no stranger, it is picked from the paper tree, if the most famous spiritual flower in the moon paper country is what, it is undoubtedly laurel.
Ding Xing used to collect many seeds for paper-making trees, but he didn't have a place to cultivate them, so he bought them from the ghost market.
The use of laurel to make the liquor, showing a dark yellow state, also formed porridge-like particles, itself is non-toxic, Ding Xing poured himself a cup, raised his head to drink, closed his eyes and tasted for a while, he suddenly opened his eyes, shook his head and said: "Take the laurel to mix, the medicinal effect of the golden dew liquid will be completely lost, this wine is completely chicken ribs." ”
He refined a jar of waste wine, and the large amount of 'laurel' he bought was also useless.
But this is just the beginning, and Ding Xing is not discouraged.
After three months, Ding Xing tried a total of six new wines, three of which were scrapped, two were poisonous, and one was drinkable, but it weakened the medicinal effect of the golden dew.
It didn't work out anyway.
At this time, Ding Xing temporarily interrupted the wine tasting.
The leaf worm comes out of the cellar every half a month a new wine, during the cellar period, Ding Xing has been refining the soul fixing pill, casting a warm and nourishing spring for the soul of a scissor person, and waiting for the pluto spring to be completed, after sending a scissor into the spring, Ding Xing decided to change the way of tasting wine.
He didn't want to make a new wine, so he left the spirit pool to experiment once, which would cause him to lose concentration.
Considering that the leaf worm only swallows one wine vessel at a time, but after it spits out the spirit wine, it will automatically absorb other wine vessels, so Ding Xing packed more than 100 kinds of flowers and fruits needed for the cellar in different wine vessels in advance, and closed them in a secret room with the leaf worm.
In doing so, Ding Xing was going to brew all the more than 100 new wines, and then try them one by one, so that he could concentrate on his retreat.
With the intact golden dew liquid of the Seven Altars in his possession, coupled with the good cultivation environment in the Spirit Pool, he was expected to raise the Basic Heavy Frost Method by two or three levels after the Leaf Worm's cellaring period was over.