63. Identification (I)

In the next few days, Huang Chang stayed in the market honestly, and when he was interested, he went to the free market to browse the stalls, but he didn't expect to pick up anything, mainly to increase his knowledge and broaden his horizons - those things that were taken out by the loose cultivators were messy and everything, and many of them were strange and strange even they didn't know the purpose of, so they brought them here, sometimes not necessarily to sell, but hoping to meet someone who knew how to do it. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

-- That's why these casual cultivators are also very thieves, and they often start by indiscriminately offering an unattainable price, and if you go up and ask a few words carefully, maybe they won't sell it, and then turn their heads and think about it carefully.

Of course, it is very unreliable to increase knowledge in this way, so Huang Chang is more often in the shop in Fangshi, asking those old shopkeepers for advice. Those shopkeepers are all human spirits, and a pair of eyes are the best at seeing people, but with Huang Chang's close relationship with Ji Chengxuan, and the cultivation speed that can reach the Five Heavens realm at such a young age, there is no doubt that the future will be great. In addition, Huang Chang himself is also a sensible person, and the senior closed-mouth master shouted happily, and those shopkeepers are naturally willing to form a good relationship with him, and try to guide him when he has the opportunity, and he is also willing to tell him frankly about some key tricks and mysteries, and he does not hide his selfishness - anyway, they all know that such an excellent young man will definitely improve his own realm in the future and strive to advance to the Fa Yuan Realm as soon as possible.

On this day, Huang Chang was sitting in front of the herbal medicine counter, following four or five junior apprentices to learn from the pharmacist shopkeeper to identify several rare herbs that were relatively rare and easy to be confused, when he suddenly felt that his eyes were dark, but there were customers coming to the door. Hurry up like other ordinary apprentices, stand up and step aside, and see how the shopkeeper receives him.

This herbal counter is specially responsible for the purchase of raw materials from outside medicine in Baiyunfang. The elixirs used by immortal cultivators often have high requirements for the year, and it is not uncommon for decades to start, and hundreds of years are not uncommon. Many medicinal materials cannot be cultivated artificially and can only be collected sporadically, so there is a special counter for external acquisition. However, the things brought by the casual cultivators are often mixed, and some are even specially disguised, shoddy, and new to the old, which requires the shopkeeper to have a pair of sharp eyes. If you don't have enough experience, you will have to pay for the loss if you are deceived - but on the other hand, the usual income of this position is also very high. And with the deep background of Baiyunfang, there are usually few people who dare to come here to cheat, so it is generally very comfortable to be a shopkeeper here.

At this time, the shopkeeper stepped forward to ask a few words, and saw that the other party really had a few rare herbs that he wanted to sell. Remembering that he had just told his apprentices about this, he turned around and smiled:

"Ah Chang, this time it's up to you to identify the goods and see how well you learn. ”

There was a rare opportunity to practice, Huang Chang did not shirk, stepped forward, and first stared at the counter in accordance with the rule of "one look, two smells, three senses......

The monk was obviously an insider, and the herbs were neatly arranged in a jade box dedicated to storing rare elixirs. The boxes were placed on the counter by the monk himself, and he opened them himself, without any intervention from the shopkeepers. In case there is a fall between the change of hands, and the responsibility cannot be distinguished.

And when the herbs were on display, the monk stepped aside, and it was all a matter of the shop, and whatever means they used to identify them—not damaging the herbs themselves, of course, or they would have to buy them in their possession.

Huang Chang first carefully inspected the condition, this herb must be very careful when digging or picking, sometimes even a little damage to the epidermis will lead to the loss of medicinal properties, the value of the loss. Therefore, Huang Chang was also very careful when inspecting, and after looking at the front, he took a jade skewer from the side, carefully turned over the herb, and then checked the other side again......

-- There are many kinds of elixirs in the world, and the medicinal properties are also strange, some will conflict with metal, wood and stone and other materials, so jade is often used in preservation and processing, jade is considered to be condensed by the essence of heaven and earth in this world, it is strong and pure, and will not interfere with the medicinal properties of plants and trees, and it is the most common pharmacy tool.

After seeing the appearance of the herbs, Huang Chang's next action was to gently fan the top of the medicine box with his hand and carefully sniff the smell that came from him. This is also the standard pharmacist's action - if you are a layman, you will often put your nose together and smell it indiscriminately, but in this way, the breath exhaled by the human body itself may contaminate the elixir, so just by looking at the action of smelling the medicinal gas, you can see whether it is professional or not.

Huang Chang's movements are obviously very standard, because he also had this requirement for doing chemical experiments in his previous life, and the old shopkeeper next to him nodded secretly, saying in his heart that this kid really has outstanding understanding, and he is worthy of being an elite disciple from Kunlun Mountain.

"One look and two smells" have been used, and the next is the unique identification method for immortal cultivators: to sense its characteristics with divine consciousness and spiritual sense. In this regard, Huang Chang had an advantage over the pharmacist who taught him the science of discernment-he was in the middle stage of his cultivation realm, his divine consciousness could be released out of his body, and his sensing ability was extremely powerful. And the shopkeeper himself had only just refined his qi, and he could barely gather some divine thoughts, and he still had to touch the surface of those herbs with his fingers and concentrate on it before he could feel something. As for the four or five junior apprentices next to them, they were all mortals at all, and they couldn't concentrate their spiritual power at all, so for them, the "three senses" were just a myth at all.

In fact, Huang Chang also learned material recognition on West Kunlun Mountain, but those teachers and teachers on West Kunlun Mountain taught them to directly use their divine sense, and they only mentioned their appearance characteristics casually, and they would not deliberately study it at all - vision can be deceived, smell, taste, hearing, and touch can be deceived, but spiritual sense is the least easy to be deceived. Remembering the characteristics of a material in the sense of consciousness is more useful than anything else. That is to say, these people in the mortal and lower realms are generally insufficient, so they will delve into various methods used by mortals.

Therefore, Huang Chang actually already has a higher-level method to solve the problem, and these days he has come to learn and apply those low-level methods from the shopkeepers of the Fang City, just to confirm his judgment in spiritual consciousness. Therefore, he showed a very relaxed identification process in the last "induction" level: his eyes were half-open and half-closed, and he only glanced at the boxes roughly, which was considered to have been recognized, and compared with the careful inspection of the first time just now, it seemed a little careless.