Volume 2: Mo Shanghua Chapter 38: Dantong Tries Ding (2)
This is a simple two-hall courtyard.
The entrance is a small courtyard of ten zhang in size, with a small stone path several feet wide in the middle, and dozens of ordinary gray and white stone slabs are paved from the courtyard gate all the way to the house, leading to the inner courtyard.
On both sides of the stone path were several small ridges, all of which were planted with different herbs.
These small medicinal fields are the fruits of Han Dong's labor for more than two years, and several common medicinal herbs are planted, which are planted in each small medicinal field according to different types. These are all flowers and herbs that belong to Xiangyang, and their value is not very high, because of their similar medicinal properties, they were exchanged for seeds by Han Dong with a small contribution point and planted here.
Along the small stone path, there are two opposite houses in the middle of the courtyard, one is used as a storage room, mainly for the storage of medicinal herbs, and the medicinal herbs picked and exchanged by Han Dong are placed on the medicine shelves inside.
Danfeng's Dantong wanted to obtain some mortal-level or spirit-level herbs, and there were only three ways.
One is self-cultivation, which is time-consuming and labor-intensive, and has the lowest efficiency. Generally, only some herbs with ordinary medicinal power and relatively short flowering and fruiting periods can be planted. The stronger the herb, the longer the growth and maturity period is required, or the growing environment has special requirements. Little Dantong, wanting to plant in his own medicine garden is too unrealistic.
The other is the simplest and most direct contribution exchange, but if you want to exchange the resources in Danfeng, you need hard-won contribution points, if it is not necessary or there is really no other way to obtain it, ordinary herbs, Han Dong is reluctant to exchange them with precious contribution points.
The last way is by completing the Dantong Quest. Usually when Dan Tong completes the task of giving a hand to the elders, in addition to obtaining some fixed reward contribution points, there are often some alchemy smooth, and the elders who are generous give them an additional reward such as one or two herbs that are relatively rare for Dan Tong. However, this kind of access is more random.
The other room was a practice room, which was the room where Han Dong practiced using Danding.
If the Dan Tong want to learn alchemy, it is not just for the elders to help, this practice room is specially set up for the Dan Tong. The practice room is equipped with an artificially simulated fire vein spirit array, and the firepower is much inferior to the natural underground fire vein, but it is enough for the Dan Tong to carry out simple Danding exercises. Otherwise, you have to use your contribution points to go to the real Dan Array and Danding at the foot of the mountain at every turn, and few Dantong's contribution points can resist. Moreover, without sufficient spiritual cultivation and proficient practice in fire control, rashly using the 'Danlin' alchemy will only waste the hard-won contribution points and raw materials.
Passing through the two houses, there is a courtyard that is smaller than the outer courtyard. The courtyard is relatively simple, with only a stone table and two pairs of stone benches under a crooked common dwarf pine and pine tree.
The stone path leads to a small fork in the road, leading to the stone table and bench on one side, and winding to a row of two-room houses on the other, where it turns a corner and stops at a shallow well of a mountain spring on the other side.
There are two rooms, one of which is used for living and resting. The other is the ashram room, which is almost identical to the ashram of the monk's house. The difference is only that the spiritual energy content of the spirit gathering array configured in the meditation room in the courtyard here is much higher than that of the retreat room, and the spirit array will also vary according to the cultivation of the Dantongs. At the beginner foundation building monk stage, the higher the realm of the Dantongs, the thicker and more abundant the spiritual energy that the spirit array that can be activated during cultivation will be!
Han Dong briefly glanced at the growth in the medicine field, and after finding no abnormal growth plants, he went straight through the stone path between the storage room and the practice room, and came to the retreat room and pushed the door directly in. There is no need to pay any additional contribution points to practice in your own courtyard, and after being promoted to the official disciple of Danfeng, these are all benefits and can be used for free.
Since he completed the cultivation of the General Knowledge Realm a year ago and entered the Spiritual Channeling Realm, relying on the nourishment of the body by the spiritual energy of heaven and earth, he can already wrap his stomach without ordinary food.
After completing the Dantong task once every three days, he can practice and practice with more peace of mind, and he no longer needs to pinch his fingers to calculate how much spiritual food he eats when he was a child.
After entering the cultivation state, Han Dong's divine thoughts quickly sank into a familiar misty space again in the midst of cultivation.
The misty space here is still mysterious to Han Dong, since he first broke through to the realm of general knowledge, every time he cultivates, his divine thoughts will enter this mysterious misty space in a state of cultivation. It's just that I don't know if it's an illusion, since he entered the realm of general knowledge, every time Shen Nian came to this mysterious space, there would always be a faint sense of familiarity in the depths of his consciousness.
Han Dong still didn't know that he had fallen into a crisis where his divine thoughts were almost collapsing and dying, and when he woke up, he didn't know anything about what had happened, and Jiang Feng didn't tell him the truth. And since that accident that almost wiped out his soul, Han Dong's subconscious has always had a thought, that is, he must not practice in the misty space, this subconscious thought is rooted in the core of Han Dong's deep thoughts, so after that time, he has never had any thoughts of trying to practice in the misty space, and there has been no accident.
However, every time he practiced, his divine thoughts entered the mysterious space here, which would invisibly make his cultivation speed much faster than usual, so he never thought about it.
After Han Dong's divine thoughts entered the misty space, he no longer wandered around as before, making some meaningless attempts, but after sitting down on the spot, his divine thoughts naturally began to think about going to Elder Fang Zhiping's place today to assist in alchemy observation and learning, and began to scrutinize the details of the period.
This is also a big secret of his, every time he practices, as long as he enters the misty space, he can use his divine thoughts to simulate the practice of alchemy skills in the misty space at the same time. This also made him, a little Dantong, quite happy with those elders every time he 'did chores' under the elders.
Recently, he had been following Elder Fang Zhiping for more than a month in alchemy, and Elder Fang Zhiping was a very foul-tempered little old man, at least at the beginning, he was quite harsh on him and the other Dan Tong who assisted in alchemy. Every time I explain the task of assisting in alchemy, I don't have the patience to explain it in detail, once there is a small mistake, it will be a scolding that will cover my face.
Elder Fang Zhiping is responsible for refining a spiritual pill called 'Qing Shen Dan', which is a spiritual level vulgar pill called 'Qing Shen Dan', the effect is mainly to remind the monk's divine soul insight, which can help the monk enhance the ability to dispel delusion, and it is a batch of pills that Danfeng needs to supply the sect in accordance with the amount every once in a while.
As the middle pillar of the Aoki Sect, the elders enjoy the benefits of the sect's leaders, but different elders also need to shoulder different tasks. A Dan Xiu elder like Elder Fang Zhiping needed to regularly complete a fixed share of the supply of pills for the sect.
Of course, the supply of these elixirs cannot be prepared as slowly and methodically as the elders refining some rare elixirs or true pills by themselves, and they need to choose a good day and auspicious day, and they also need to burn incense, bath and even fast, and then they can be refined. Naturally, that level of elixir can't let people know the treasure's unbelievable pill at will.
For a unified type of pill like 'Qingshen Pill' that needs to be refined in large quantities, it requires the assistance of many Dantongs to carry out different divisions of labor for each Dantong, and refine a large number of them at the same time. Therefore, the assistance and cooperation of each Dantong is indispensable.
After refining the elixir twice with this foul-tempered elder Fang Zhiping, Fang Zhiping found that Han Dong was meticulous and careful, and he grasped the timing of the steps in charge just like some cultivators who had participated in the refining of the same elixir many times, and even exceeded it to some extent. So, he was happy to take it easy, and let Han Dong be in charge of the Dantong command of his furnace of pills alone.
This time, I really tried something. Unexpectedly, Han Dong, who commanded the refining of the pill for the first time, was extremely familiar with the classification of various herbs of the 'Qingshen Pill', and all aspects of the process were quite good in terms of heat control and the order and timing of the dosing.
In the following month's refining, Han Dong simply made him a small boss-like role, and several times before alchemy, he was responsible for explaining to other cultivators the timing skills such as putting in pills and mastering the fire of the furnace. Therefore, when the last refining was finished today, Han Dong was given more contribution points than originally stipulated. It made the other cultivators also envious for a while.
Now, Han Dong is taking advantage of the characteristics of the misty space, and while not delaying his cultivation at all, he simulates and restores the experience and skills of refining the 'Qingshen Pill' in this misty space, as well as some alchemy techniques that Fang Zhiping pointed out to the cultivators. This is also the deputy position of the elders, although there is no explicit rule, but almost every Danshi elder will teach some alchemy techniques and personal alchemy experience to the cultivators who help them in alchemy.
As for saying more and saying less, whether it is useful or not depends on the temperament of the elders and the understanding of the Dantong themselves, and this Aoki Sect does not have an explicit provision. For the elders, it is your own business to know how much you can grasp after listening, and even some stingy elders can say a word or two or simply not say anything in a daze.
If you really meet such an elder, you can probably only consider yourself unlucky.
The reason why Han Dong was so bothered with the thinking of alchemy was not that he was already able to refine the spirit level pill with his current ability, but mainly because after completely commanding the refining of the 'Qing Shen Pill' several times under Elder Fang Zhiping these days, he had already decided to open the furnace alone to refine the first mortal-level treasure pill that he had cultivated so far: the Muscle Generating Pill!
After more than two years of private practice, coupled with the accumulation of alchemy, he has a great confidence that he will definitely succeed!
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