Chapter 208: Spirit Winemaker
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On the avenue leading to Qianyuan City, a team of carriages and horses slowly moved forward.
Yan Yue incarnated as a high-level Qi refining cultivator and sat in a carriage.
This is a convoy of mortal wealthy merchants, and the son who leads the team seems to like to make friends with cultivators, and a few days ago he saw Yan Yue Imperial Sword flying down, so he invited him to go with him.
In order not to provoke people's eyes, Yan Yue became the guardian of this wealthy businessman's convoy with a lot of money.
The son of a wealthy merchant who led the team was extremely attentive, poked his head into the car, and said that he was about to arrive at his house, and asked Yan Yue to go to his house to sit down.
Yan Yue replied casually, and his divine sense reached into the storage bag and looked through the "Yuanyang Jade Liquid" prescription left by his father Yan Shaoyuan before he died.
"While I cultivate in the future, I may also need to collect the medicinal materials needed for the Yuanyang Jade Liquid......
The Yuanyang jade liquid prescription was developed by Yan Shaoyuan for nearly ten years.
During the nearly half year that Yan Yue was on the run, he often looked at the prescriptions, and while he was grateful for his father's hard work, he also sincerely admired it in his heart.
Yan Shaoyuan had never been in contact with pharmacology before learning that Yan Yue was "weak and could not live to be eighteen years old".
But later, through visiting famous teachers and specializing in his own research, he actually developed a life-prolonging prescription that no one had ever come before.
Many of the medicinal materials needed for this prescription are precious spiritual herbs that can only be used by cultivators.
Yan Shaoyuan developed this prescription, but he had not seen some of the high-grade spirit grasses with his own eyes, but used a derivation method that made Yan Yue feel incredible.
First, he looked at the ancient medicine book that Yan Yue brought back, and deduced that a certain medicine might be able to become the medicinal material needed for the Yuanyang jade liquid, and then conducted various studies with ordinary medicinal materials with similar effects to prove whether high-grade medicinal materials could really be added to the prescription.
Or first study all kinds of ordinary medicinal materials, and deduce that if there is really a high-level medicinal material of the same kind, it should be able to add the prescription, and then go to the ancient medicine book to find out whether this kind of medicinal material really exists.
Yan Yue had already looked at this prescription carefully, and found that if the Yuanyang jade liquid could be refined, it really had the effect of increasing longevity.
Yan Shao is far from seeing what he is, only knowing its effect, and he is completely derived from ordinary medicinal materials, but in the end, he can successfully develop the wisdom, and he admires the five bodies to the ground.
"If my father becomes a cultivator and learns spells, he will be many times faster than me!"
This prescription can not only increase longevity, but also Yan Shaoyuan's hard work, Yan Yue has the heart to refine it.
His ultimate goal is to pursue immortality and become a strong man.
How does this need to be achieved?
Step by step, improve the realm of cultivation.
And the Honglu Realm is the next step.
However, Shou Yuan is limited, and after reaching the second realm, only twenty percent of the Shou Yuan of ordinary people has been added, and the thing that bothers Yan Yue the most is still the one before.
That is, it is necessary to ascend to the next level and increase longevity in a limited time.
Yan Yue's cultivation is not only for dreams, but also for survival.
If you want to reach the Honglu Realm before the age of thirty-eight, even if you have a super-grade root bone and the help of the treasure gourd, you may not be able to complete this goal in the remaining twenty miles.
It may be possible to reach the standard within the time limit, but after breaking through the realm, it is no longer possible to succeed 100% like when the Great Perfection of Qi Refining was ascended to build the foundation.
Impacting the Honglu Realm with the Great Perfection of the Heart Sea, there is also a 20% failure rate.
If you fail once, you won't be able to hit it again for years.
In other words, Yan Yue may be able to achieve the Great Perfection of the Heart Sea within seventeen or eight years, but he may not be able to break through the realm and increase his longevity.
Once you fail, you lose the opportunity to hit again.
Therefore, before the realm is raised, increasing a certain longevity can extend the period and make the time more abundant, thereby increasing the possibility of success in the limited time.
There are two steps to refining the Yuanyang jade liquid, one is to collect the medicinal materials, and the other is to refine the medicine.
Since the main medicines used in the prescription were all high-level spirit grasses, heavenly and earthly treasures, and some were even only mentioned in the ancient cultivation medicine books, Yan Yue was not sure whether these spirit grasses really existed in the world.
Even if it exists, it can be expensive, so it is quite difficult to just collect all the medicinal materials.
What gave Yan Yue the most headache was how to refine the medicine.
First of all, the effect of this prescription in increasing longevity is definitely there.
This kind of prescription that really increases longevity does not exist in the world, and the prescription of Yuanyang jade liquid is a sky-high price or even a priceless thing.
To show people, it is definitely not good.
In terms of medicinal materials, it is estimated that the price is also very exaggerated.
If you really collect all kinds of medicinal materials and ask a famous teacher to refine them, then the medicinal materials will definitely be confiscated 100%.
If you want to refine the Yuanyang jade liquid, you still need to do it yourself.
Refining medicine is actually a relatively simple job, you only need to follow the steps written by Yan Shaoyuan to boil various medicinal materials into a decoction.
However, this brewed liquid does not have perfect efficacy.
Ordinary medicinal liquids, through the hands of spirit wine masters, are refined into spirit wine, and its medicinal effect is many times that of the original.
This is also the reason why all kinds of medicines that assist in cultivation exist in the form of spirit wine.
If Yan Yue wanted to refine the Yuanyang jade liquid, he needed to do two things, one was to collect medicinal materials, and the other was to learn alchemy.
Of course, doing all this is to complete my father's hard work, and secondly, to improve my cultivation.
Whether it is collecting medicinal herbs or learning alchemy, it must be established on the premise that it does not affect cultivation.
In addition, refining Yuanyang jade liquid also needs to be established on the premise that it takes less time than the increased longevity yuan to refine Yuanyang jade liquid to be valuable.
If it takes ten years just to learn alchemy, and the final increase in longevity is only one year, then this matter becomes meaningless and detrimental to oneself.
There is also the cost of collecting medicinal herbs, which needs to be weighed clearly.
If collecting those medicinal herbs requires a lot of spirit stones, then why don't these spirit stones be used directly to improve cultivation?
Yan Yue had to figure out the time and cost needed before finally deciding whether to do it or not.
Everything needs to wait until you enter Qianyuan City and understand it clearly.
In the middle of the training, the carriage suddenly stopped, and the rich merchant son who led the team led a middle-aged man in a gorgeous costume into the car.
This is another cultivator he has newly befriended, because there is only one comfortable carriage in the convoy, so he led the middle-aged man to ride with Yan Yue.
When the middle-aged man saw that there was another person inside, his face was a little not good-looking, but after discovering Yan Yue's "high-level Qi refining" cultivation, the anger that appeared immediately subsided.
hugged his fist slightly at Yan Yue, and sat opposite Yan Yue calmly.
Yan Yue swept his eyes and found that this person was just a mid-level Qi Refining Cultivator, but when he saw that he was facing the high-level Qi Refining Rank, he still looked arrogant, and he was slightly surprised.
Generally speaking, when a monk with a lower cultivation level sees a monk with a higher cultivation, he is respectful and will never have such an arrogant attitude as this person.
After the rich businessman saw the middle-aged man saluting Yan Yue, Yan Yue didn't move, his expression was a little flustered, and he hurriedly reminded Yan Yue that the person sitting opposite him was a noble spirit wine master.
In the cultivation world, the strong are respected, and the winemakers are precious.
All famous wine refining teachers and wine tasters are all well-known and respected by the world.
A cultivator is one out of 10,000 mortals, and a spirit wine master, among the 100,000 cultivators, there may not be one.
In the eyes of mortals, a high-level Qi Refining Cultivator is not yet a person who is a mid-level Qi Refining Master but is also a Spirit Wine Master, even if the other party is only a first-order Spirit Wine Master.
Hearing the words of the rich businessman outside, the middle-aged man's expression became even more proud, and he flicked his robe, revealing a strange wine bottle embroidered on it in Yan Yue's sight.
This kind of person who Yan Yue can pinch to death at will, he didn't care about him, and hugged his fist at him at will.
After all, the middle-aged man's cultivation is lower than the Yan of the "Advanced Qi Refining Level", he snorted in his nose, sat with his eyes closed, and after a few days, he left after taking the ride to the destination.
Not long after, the convoy came to a halt in a town.
The rich merchant son warmly invited Yan Yue to sit at his house and let him enjoy the friendship of a landlord.
Yan Yue could do qi cultivation anytime and anywhere, so he followed him to his mansion.
When his father heard that his son had brought back a cultivator, he hurriedly greeted him warmly, and prepared a banquet to entertain him.
After three rounds of drinking, the rich merchant tentatively asked Yan Yuedao, can Shangxian sell me a piece of the spirit stone you use, the price is negotiable.
With Yan Yue's consent, he immediately ordered someone to take out one tael of gold, and another ten taels of silver.
A low-grade spirit stone is equal to one hundred taels of silver, and it is equal to one tael of gold.
The wealthy merchant is a nouveau riche, and his financial resources are among the top three in the town, and his greatest wish in life is to collect a spiritual stone that only cultivators have.
I don't care that thanks to ten taels of silver, I am already satisfied to be able to exchange for spirit stones.
Just one spirit stone was of little use to Yan Yue, so he deliberately chose one of the more crystalline ones in the storage bag for him.
The rich merchant held the spirit stone in his hand, looked at it over and over, couldn't put it down, and thanked Yan Yue again and again.
The next day, the wealthy merchant invited other rich people in the town to see the spirit stone.
The rich people looked at this upstart ghost and actually got a spirit stone that they had always dreamed of collecting, and they all shouted to find the immortal in exchange, but Yan Yue had already left.
"A spirit stone actually has such value in the eyes of mortals......
One spirit stone is equal to one tael of gold, which is just a reference price.
Yan Yue had never seen anyone exchange it before, after all, a tael of gold was enough for a mortal to spend a lifetime.
For a cultivator with ordinary qualifications, a spirit stone was only equivalent to speeding up the cultivation time.
And this kind of wealthy businessman is willing to exchange one or two gold for a spirit stone.
Yan Yue left the town and headed for Qianyuan City, which was only a dozen days away for the high-level Qi refining, and went to the Imperial Sword.
Qianyuan City is more than 2 million miles away from Nanming, and the power of the Ten Factions and the Nanshan Sect is far inferior here.
Qianyuan City is a gathering place for all kinds of monks, although the Ten Factions and the Nanshan Sect analyzed that Yan Yue would definitely go to Qianyuan City, how dare they blatantly set up checkpoints near Qianyuan City.
Yan Yue did not encounter any more investigations, and went all the way unimpeded, and came directly to the outside of Qianyuan City.
Anyone who wants to enter Qianyuan City must pay ten lower grade spirit stones, or show proof of residence in the city.
Yan Yue paid the qi refining guards at the gate of the city, ten lower grade spirit stones, and secretly said in his heart, one thousand taels of silver is gone?
Looking at the endless stream of monks behind him, he secretly scolded himself for a while and walked towards the city.
Qianyuan City sits on the second largest spiritual energy treasure of the Azure Ming Dynasty, attracting a large number of monks to settle down, and it is the only large city in the Azure Ming Dynasty that is full of cultivators, with a settled population of as many as three million.
The first type of people who haunt the city are long-term settlers, and if they want to settle in the city, they need to pay the corresponding fees.
The second type is the city guards who manage public security, the qi refining monks have the qi refining city guards, and the foundation building monks have the foundation city guards.
The third category is all kinds of monks passing by, attracted by the large number of spirit wine, spirit weapons, spirit runes, spells, and even spirit animal shops in the city, as well as various trading activities.
The fourth category is all kinds of merchants, such as spirit winemakers, talisman makers, refiners, etc., as well as various merchants derived from them.
Among the professions, the spirit sommelier is the most noble.
If the Azure Ming cultivators want to learn the cultivation exercises, or the Five Elements Spell, the major sects and even the scattered cultivation offices can learn it relatively easily.
But if you want to learn the art of refining wine, you can only go to Qianyuan City.
The wine refining culture in the city is developed, and even Elder Huang and other spirit wine masters of each sect in the Ten Sects Alliance, or the spirit wine masters of the third or fourth bottles, need to come to Qianyuan City for further study if they want to improve their wine refining skills.
The monk became a spirit wine master, mainly to help himself or the forces behind him, to earn spirit stones.
Tianqing Daming has the major forces of spirit wine masters, or the spirit wine masters with outstanding skills, all of them have opened restaurants in the city.
Among them, there are ten more famous time-honored brands, known as the top ten restaurants.
The top ten restaurants are selected by the ten-year Tianlu Festival Liquor Refining Conference, representing the highest level of Qianyuan City's spiritual wine culture.
When Yan Yue came to Qianyuan City, it coincided with the end of the Tianlu Festival on July 29 this year, and next year's Tianlu Festival is a ten-year wine refining conference.
Entering the city, I learned about the social structure in the city and the medicinal materials needed for Yuanyang jade liquid, inquired about the location of the top ten restaurants, and came to the nearest "Jixian Ju".
Standing in front of the restaurant, smelling the bursts of wine wafting from it, my heart groaned.
"I heard Elder Huang say that he focused on refining wine, and it took ten years for the refining level to reach the second level of refining, if I learn to refine wine, this speed will definitely not work......"
Yan Yue had a preliminary understanding that among the medicinal materials needed for Yuanyang Jade Liquid was the fifth-order spirit grass.
Then, the level of the prescription of Yuanyang jade liquid should also be around the fifth order, if you want to refine Yuanyang jade liquid into spirit wine, you need five bottles of refining wine.
And at the rate of reaching the second bottle level in ten years, how long will it take to become a five-bottle spirit wine master?
Even if he reaches the second bottle of superiority in a year, it is not within the scope of Yan Yue's acceptance.
Whether the level of the spirit wine master is raised quickly or not mainly depends on the monk's understanding.
Yan Yue has created various cultivation and combat techniques by himself many times, and the speed at which he learns spells is even more exaggerated to the point of being outrageous.
I think my understanding should be okay.
It's just that comprehension is not like qualifications and bones that can be specifically measured to determine which level it is.
Yan Yue didn't know what his comprehension was, so he thought that he would learn from a spirit wine master for a while to see if the spirit wine master was suitable for him, and then make a difference.
And all the spirit wine masters in the city, most of them are concentrated in the major restaurants, Yan Yue came to Jixian Ju, one of the top ten restaurants, and went in to inquire about the situation first.
As a "high-level qi refiner", he walked into the restaurant, looked at the first floor, and saw that he was full of friends, so he wanted to go to the second floor.
Seeing this, the Qi Refining Junior Er next to the corridor hurriedly smiled and stopped: "Guest officer, upstairs is the foundation building monk's seat, please come here." โ
No matter where they go, monks with different strengths have different identities, Yan Yue, a "high-level Qi refining" foundation building monk, didn't say anything, and under the guidance of Xiao Er, he came to an empty table in the corner and sat down.
"What kind of wine do you want from the guest officer?" asked Xiao Er enthusiastically.
Yan Yue said: "What kind of wine are there?"
Xiao Er saw that Yan Yue should be the first time to come to Jixian Residence, his eyes rolled, and he said with a smile: "There are all kinds of spirit wine, but this is the price...... The first-order spirit wine ranges from twenty spirit stones to one hundred spirit stones, and the second-order spirit wine can cost a pot of several hundred spirit stones. โ
Yan Yue was stunned when he heard this, the spirit wine brewed by Elder Huang in the Yunyang Sect was five spirit stones in the first order, ten or twelve in the first order, and only twenty or thirty spirit stones in the first order.
And the Immortal Residence, just the first-order lower grade costs twenty spirit stones.
He scolded secretly and asked, "What are the characteristics of the spiritual wine in your store, and does the wine have a lot of spiritual power?"
Xiao Eryi saw that Yan Yue was a shabby ghost, and he might not even have the minimum consumption of twenty spirit stones on his body, but he had been running in this hall for so many years, so naturally he would not directly drive Yan Yue away.
Regarding Yan Yue's question, he had never heard a guest officer ask, and he said with some ridicule: "My family's spiritual wine is better than the effect, aroma, and taste, and I don't pay attention to how much spiritual power there is in the wine." โ
Yan Yue scolded again when he heard this, he was embarrassed to sell it so expensively with little spiritual power.
The main reason for coming here was to inquire about intelligence, but it was impossible for Bai to sit for nothing, so he ordered a pot of the cheapest first-order lower spirit wine.
Xiao Er brought the wine, Yan Yue took a sip, and found that this wine could help low-level Qi refining cultivators increase their cultivation speed in a short period of time.
This effect is based on the quality of the aura, which is more similar to the first-order mid-grade spirit wine that Elder Huang refined.
Most of the wine sold in Jixian Ju is this kind of wine, and customers are tasting wine in the building while doing qi induction cultivation.
The effect of this wine, for Yan Yue, is not as good as the chicken rib wine worth a spirit stone.
As for the aroma and taste of the wine, Yan Yue felt that it was indeed better than that made by Elder Huang, which was also the reason why a large number of monks came to drink, and the reason why Jixian Ju dared to raise the price several times.
Yan Yue seems to have tasted a faint hint of freshness and refinement from the wine, but this hint of refinement is too reluctantly integrated, but it gives the wine a bit of vassal elegance, which corresponds to the seemingly elegant, but actually vulgar store name.
In the drinking room, I observed all kinds of people coming in and out of the store.
The shopkeeper on the first floor of the store is a monk in the early stage of foundation building, and the dozen or so juniors in the hall are all qi refining and cultivating.
As for the guests, the Qi Refining Cultivator could only sit on the noisy first floor, and if he wanted to go up to the second floor, he had to build a foundation and cultivate, and there was also a third floor, which was intended for the Jiedan Monk.
There is no way to fight in Qianyuan City, and the strong are respected, and this set is still applicable.
As a monk, he is still at the bottom of Qi refining, and if he wants to survive here, most of them can only make a living by running around the hall and selling their labor like Xiao Er.
The foundation is located in the middle level, similar to the elders of the Yunyang Sect, and is the management personnel of various commercial banks.
And Yu Dan is the upper-class person, and he is the actual controller of each shop.
There is a group of people with a special identity, that is, the spirit wine master.
In the same realm, the status of the spirit wine master is higher than that of ordinary monks, whether it is a mortal or a cultivator, when he sees a strong person in the high realm, he is only in awe on the surface, but when he sees a spirit wine master, he respects him from the bottom of his heart.
In addition, what affects the status in Qianyuan City, in addition to whether there is someone behind it, is also an important influencing factor.
As in mortal society, only rich people can live a chic and comfortable life.
A richly dressed Qi Refining Cultivator who looked like a rich boy entered the building, and the juniors hurriedly stepped forward to greet them warmly.
The rich boy refining qi is high-level, and he ordered a pot of second-order spirit wine with five hundred spirit stones.
The surrounding guests, who knew the rich boy, were close to him enthusiastically.
Spirit stones, Yan Yue is not nothing, in addition to the nearly 10,000 cash spirit stones obtained from killing each foundation, there are various magic weapons worth nearly one million in total.
These magic weapons, except for the best ones, will be replaced with spirit stones and spirit wine for their own cultivation in the future.
Just as he was about to call Xiao Er to inquire if there was any spirit wine master recruiting apprentices, there was a sudden noise in the back hall.
"Senior Brother Huang, I think you should go to 'Spring Chang Zai', that place is suitable for you, haha. โ
With a burst of joking laughter, the group walked out of the back hall.
Yan Yue looked at it and saw that the person who spoke was in the late stage of foundation building, and he was wearing a spirit wine master's robe, which was embroidered with four wine bottles representing his identity.
The others are also spirit wine masters, and their rank is three bottles.
When he saw one of the old men, he was shocked and immediately turned around.
This old man is none other than Elder Huang, the spirit wine master of the Yunyang Sect, and among the other people, there are a few people Yan Yue also knows a little, and this group of people is the spirit wine master sent by the Ten Faction Alliance and the Nanshan Sect to Qianyuan City to further cultivate the art of wine.
"Where did they study the art of wine?"
If this group of people appears here, then it is very likely that the Ten Sects and the Nanshan Sect will also be here.
Yan Yue immediately calmed down, remained silent, pretended to be like ordinary people, and looked at that place.
"Exactly, the spirit wine brewed by Huang Daoyou is the most suitable for female cultivators to drink, and Spring is often the most suitable for you. โ
Chunchang is one of the top ten restaurants in Qianyuan City, and most of the spirit wine sold is the rejuvenating wine that resides the appearance and maintains the youth, which is deeply loved by the female cultivators, and is the only one of the top ten restaurants for the female cultivators.
These ten wine masters said that Chun Chang was suitable for Elder Huang, which was a naked mockery.
Elder Huang and Yan Yue were also teachers and friends, in normal times, Yan Yue would definitely come forward to help, but now he could only remain quiet, pretending to be ordinary guests, and raised his eyes to watch suspiciously.
Elder Huang looked at the back of the hall, only to see that no one came out to stay, and sneered, but there was a sense of pride in his expression, "There is no one here, there is a place to keep people!"
As he spoke, he flicked his sleeves and walked away.
Seeing this scene, a middle-aged beautiful woman on the second floor saw this scene, looked at Elder Huang's back, her eyes lit up, and she hurriedly walked downstairs and said to Elder Huang: "Master Huang has brewed a masterpiece that contains homesickness, if you don't dislike it, you can come to my 'cup forget worries' to show your wine skills." โ
Elder Huang looked in the direction of the back hall, and when he saw that no one had come out to stay for a long time, he sighed and followed the middle-aged beautiful woman out of the restaurant.
The four-bottle spirit wine master sneered and said to the people beside him: "I'm right, the most suitable for him is the nun's embrace." โ
The spirit winemakers laughed.
After Elder Huang left, one of the Jiedan monks wearing the robes of the spirit wine master said: "This person's skills are different, the wine is delicate and elegant, my small temple ...... Hah! It's not where he can show off his drinking skills. โ
The other Yudan smiled apologetically, "I'm ashamed, these people really caused trouble to Brother Dao." โ
After speaking, he looked out again, and secretly said in his heart, this son turned out of my Nanshan more than a hundred years ago, and today he and I sent a wine master to get along again, let him go, is there still one less three bottles of him.
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