Chapter 3 Apprenticeship
After dinner, Zhu Youdao returned to his room, put medicine on his hands, and was about to sleep, when he suddenly remembered that today's Tongzigong had not yet been cultivated, so he stood up and began to practice Tongzigong.
An hour later, when the cultivation of Tong Zi Gong was completed, he was not so tired, and his body was warm, which should be the effect of Tong Zi Gong.
Since this was the case, Zhu Youdao simply stopped sleeping and began to meditate and practice the family's Five Elements Qi Induction Technique.
The Five Elements Qi Induction Technique is the most common exercise in the cultivation realm, and the cultivation effect is very average, but the Zhu family only has this exercise inheritance, and they can only practice it!
Because of the cultivation of the Pure Yang Boy Gong, the most suitable for Zhu Youdao is the Pure Yang Gong.
But the exercises are the most important thing in the cultivation realm, and if you want to obtain the exercises of others, you have to pay a huge price.
And some unique exercises, once leaked, it is a situation of endless death. For example, the famous "Tianluo Wanxiang Jue" is unique to the Zhou family.
Monks can use cultivation instead of sleeping, but low-level monks are limited to physical strength, and the time they can cultivate every day is limited, so they still have a lot of time to rest.
Zhu Youdao cultivated for two hours, and when he felt the limit of his body, he stopped cultivating. Seeing that the sky was about to dawn in another hour, he went to the courtyard to practice a set of family martial arts.
It's also shabby to say, the Zhu family's cultivation method only has one Five Elements Qi Induction Technique, and there is not even a spell recorded on it. Therefore, the fighting methods of the Zhu family's father and son still rely on the martial arts of the mortal world.
Zhu Yuanchang was originally a military general, and he had extraordinary martial arts, and after becoming a monk, he even captured several top martial arts in the mortal world, so the Zhu family's family martial arts were first-rate.
Zhu Youdao practiced a set of martial arts taught by his grandfather. This skill is called the Mixed Yuan Thunderbolt Gong, which is a mastery of a major martial arts sect in the mortal world, which not only has the effect of actual combat, but also has the effect of strengthening the body and forging the body.
After a set of martial arts, the sky was already bright.
Zhu Youdao went to the place where the little servant took him to eat yesterday and had breakfast, so he went early to wait for Master Zheng to arrive.
After waiting for half an hour, Master Zheng arrived, he still didn't look smiling, just nodded to Zhu Youdao, and said, "Just like yesterday, let's start working!"
Zhu Youdao didn't say a word and began to move the jar.
When Zhu Youdao was working this time, Master Zheng began to explain: "The jar is the prepared fire spirit cinnabar, which is a necessary material for making fire spirit talismans, and the new fire spirit cinnabar needs to be exposed to the sun for an hour every day, for 7749 consecutive days, and it cannot be interrupted for a day, until the red light can be seen through the jar, which is considered to be the best grade." ”
Zhu Youdao asked, "What if there is a rainy day during the period?"
Master Zheng glanced at him: "Vientiane City is guarded by a formation, when it needs rain, there will be rain, and when it doesn't need rain, it will never fall half a drop!" If the Zhou family wants to travel clouds and rain, they will notify the major families in advance!"
Zhu Youdao was stunned, he knew that he had asked an idiot's question.
Then, Master Zheng talked about the places that need to be paid attention to in cinnabar drying.
In the morning, I was moving the jar back and forth, and in the afternoon, I was still grinding stone powder.
At this time, Zhu Youdao already knew that the stone he grinded was blood granite, which was one of the main raw materials for making cinnabar.
After a day's work, Zhu Youdao was exhausted again, and his hands were full of blood blisters. Fortunately, the ointment given by Master Zheng is extraordinary, and after applying it, it can be recovered overnight.
Zhu Youdao worked during the day and cultivated at night, and his life was much more fulfilling than in his previous life. With the improvement of his work proficiency, he actually had some leisure to go out for a walk, and slowly got to know the MixC a little.
Three months later, Zhu Youdao finally came into contact with the first step of talisman making: concocting cinnabar!
Talismans have several basic skills to learn, the first of which is to prepare cinnabar.
The second is the tanning of the rune paper.
Again, you'll need a clogged rune pen.
Finally, learn and draw spell runes.
Of course, if you are a skilled talisman maker, you can use the finished cinnabar, talisman paper, and talisman pen made by others, but for beginners, not being familiar with these talisman making tools is equivalent to a soldier going to the battlefield but not being familiar with the weapons in his hands.
Therefore, every talisman maker starts with the production of these tools.
There are even some skilled talisman makers, as well as unique cinnabar recipes, rune paper crafts, and rune pens, but these are not passed on.
On the new day, Zhu Youdao is particularly looking forward to it, because Master Zheng is going to teach him the blending process of cinnabar today.
When he came to the place where he worked early, Master Zheng was already waiting there, and there was a little girl with a bun behind him, who should be about the same age as Zhu Youdao. She was looking at Zhu Youdao with a curious expression.
"Master Zheng!" Zhu Youdao hurriedly saluted.
Master Zheng nodded: "Youdao, you have worked very hard in the past three months, and you have learned things very quickly, today you will start to learn how to make cinnabar!" He pointed to the little girl beside him, "This is Chen Shu, she will study with you!"
Zhu Youdao greeted: "Senior Sister Chen, please advise me more in the future!"
Chen Shu also politely said a blessing.
Master Zheng led the two to a room with a row of shelves full of bottles and cans.
Master Zheng said: "There are many formulas for cinnabar, not to mention the special formulas, they are all treasured in the hands of major families and Xiuzhen sects. What we're learning today is a generic formula. ”
"The materials that need to be used are: blood granite powder, first-order demon beast blood, first-order spirit herbs......"
Master Zheng first explained the functions and precautions of various materials, so that Zhu Youdao and Chen Shu could memorize them with their hearts, and then prepared the simplest cinnabar formula.
There are many types of cinnabar, but the general formula is within the five elements. For example, the cinnabar with the blood of the fire demon beast and the sunflower is used to make the fire spirit rune, and if he is used to make other spirit runes, no matter how clever the talisman maker is, he will also fail.
After the cinnabar is prepared, there are many follow-up processes. For example, the fire spirit cinnabar that Zhu Youdao first came into contact with needed to be dried for forty-nine consecutive days in order to stimulate the effectiveness of the spiritual material.
And the water spirit cinnabar can not be dried, but sunk into the spring to seal. Tuling cinnabar should be buried in the ground and sealed and so on.
For Zhu Youdao, the biggest difficulty is to identify various spiritual materials, among which there are dozens of ores, herbs, and demon beast blood that can be used, and some of them are not very different in appearance, and they need to be distinguished according to color, smell, and taste. Some are even highly toxic and cannot be used in the mouth. This requires a lot of effort to observe and remember, so that the recognition can be unhindered.
Chen Shu obviously has a foundation in this area, and he knows all kinds of materials well, which makes Zhu Youdao envious.
"Senior Brother Zhu, come here, Senior Sister will test you, can you identify what kind of spiritual material this is?" Taking advantage of Master Zheng's time to go out, Chen Shu suddenly showed a sly smile.
Zhu Youdao didn't pay attention to her expression, walked over and picked up a black root-like thing, looked at it for a moment, and hesitated: "Senior sister, is this a black epiphany?"
Chen Shu said: "Senior brother, don't you know if you lick it and taste it?"
"However, Master Zheng said that a lot of spiritual materials are poisonous and can't be tasted indiscriminately!"
"What are you afraid of? It can't poison people! Besides, these spiritual senior sisters all know each other, can the senior sister still harm you?"
As soon as Zhu Youdao thought about it, he licked it in his mouth.
He smacked his lips and said, "It's a little sweet!" As soon as the words fell, he frowned and said, "It's getting sweeter and sweeter...... Well, it's too sweet...... Kill me...... Whew...... It's spicy...... Whew......"
Zhu Youdao soon became speechless, and he didn't know what he had eaten, first it was a little sweet, and then it was so sweet that it was sick to his stomach; before he could spit it out, the sweetness changed to extremely spicy, so spicy that he felt like he was about to breathe fire, and then it became extremely bitter, extremely salty, and extremely sour......
The five tastes changed repeatedly, torturing Zhu Youdao to death and rolling on the ground.
Chen Shu giggled happily on the side.
How could Zhu Youdao not know that he had fallen for her? How could he have thought that Chen Shu, a quiet and quiet little girl, would come to play tricks on himself. I could only lie on the ground and foam at the mouth, enduring the repeated impact and torture of the five tastes.
At this time, Master Zheng came back from busy work, and was taken aback when he saw the situation, and hurriedly squatted down to check, he glared at Chen Shu: "How can there be a five-flavor fruit tree root here?
Chen Shu stuck out his tongue: "Dad, I'm just playing with him, and the roots of the five-flavor fruit tree are harmless!"
"Hmph, I'll teach you a lesson when I go back!"
Master Zheng said, took out a small bottle from his arms, and poured out a pill for Zhu Youdao to take. As soon as the pill was in his mouth, a cool feeling came, and the five-flavor stimulation suddenly weakened a lot.
It wasn't until three days later that Zhu Youdao's tongue regained sensation slightly, and during this time, he really knew what it was to eat without knowing taste.