Chapter 14 Making Koji

When Sharon returned to the cave, he fell asleep as he had planned at first, perhaps because he was too tired, and this sleep was five days. Five days later, Sharon woke up, stretched, and felt refreshed.

"It's really comfortable, now that the spirit is doubled, and immediately cultivating will definitely get twice the result with half the effort, the way of civil and martial arts is relaxed, and the ancients will not deceive me. By the way, make some koji, make some good wine, and eat their tongues. The good wines in this world are all fruit-like goods, and such good raw materials can make these messy things, and there is no scientific research spirit at all. The cooked food is not much better, and it is no different from boiled water. However, there are many good things that we have never tasted, and it is not excluded that there are appetizing deliciousness. ”

After Sharan muttered, he prepared to go out to find the ingredients to make koji. Before he could leave, his divine sense sensed that a total of five disciples in the foundation building period, three men and two women, were walking towards his other courtyard, and one male disciple led by him had reached the realm of the late foundation building stage. When Xia Lang's divine sense swept over several of them, the disciple who was the leader suddenly felt as if he was being watched, and he immediately stopped and bowed to the front.

"I don't know that the senior has passed, and there is no doubt that such a strong divine sense is above the Jindan stage. ”

He thought that according to the rules of this world, it was necessary to bow when meeting a monk who was more advanced than himself. When the people behind saw him like this, they also understood that there might be seniors passing by nearby, and they also bowed and saluted. Sharon sensed all this, and the corners of his mouth raised an arc. In fact, this was caused by his unskillful control of his divine sense, otherwise that disciple would not have been able to perceive his divine sense.

When the men came to the gate of Xia Lang's courtyard, the leader spoke

"Disciple Yang Xingfeng and several fellow disciples visited the Seventh Uncle, and came to listen to the dispatch of the Seventh Uncle on the order of the Peak Master. ”。

After hearing this, Sharon knew the intention of several people. In Taixuanzong, after the True Transmission disciples reach the foundation building period, there will be some more outstanding ordinary disciples who will be arranged under the True Transmission Disciples to share some things for them. The true disciples are the elite of the elites selected by some peak masters and elders, or they are their related households, and these people will be the mainstays of the sect in the future after they grow up, so Taixuanzong stipulates that once these people really embark on the path of cultivation, they will prepare some teams for them in advance to lay the foundation for the future management of the sect.

Whether it is a true disciple with excellent qualifications or a related household, there is one thing that remains unchanged for ordinary disciples, that is, the personal disciples have abundant resources in their hands, although there are more or less, but they are all great wealth for ordinary disciples. Without particularly outstanding talent and a strong background, it is a rare opportunity for an ordinary disciple to be selected as a follower of a prequel disciple. With enough resources, it may not be impossible to mix up a famous hall, and if the clever points may be reused, then it will be prosperous.

Xia Lang got up and opened the door, greeted him, and said with a smile:

"In the future, there will be a few teachers and nephews, and a few idle houses next to it can be selected at will. ”

After greeting a few people, Xia Lang became acquainted with them. Yang Xingfeng is a gold medal fighter, his strength is super strong, and he has a lot of fame among ordinary disciples; Chu Shaoqiu has the cultivation in the middle stage of foundation building, although his strength is average, but he is a disciple of Tianshu Peak Dantang, and his talent in alchemy is very good, and he is the fourth disciple of the Dantang hall master; Huo Mingyuan has the realm of the early stage of foundation building, and he is a disciple of the instrument hall, and the talent of refining weapons has a fight with Chu Shaoqiu: the remaining two female disciples are a pair of sisters, and they are also Xia Lang's cousins, one is called Xia Zhiyun, and the other is called Xia Yueru, the two are disciples of the formation hall, and their talents are also good。

It's just that these two sisters Xia Lang are really seeing each other for the first time, their father is the seventeenth brother of Emperor Mingyang, King Zhendong, but King Zhendong has a lot of children, Xia Lang has not seen them yet, not to mention that Xia Lang was originally a withdrawn child, and his sisters are not familiar, let alone cousins. But at this time, Xia Lang heard someone call him cousin, he was really a little excited, he was an orphan for the first time to experience the taste of family affection, although he didn't know if these two sisters really regarded him as a brother, but it still felt pretty good.

With manpower, he didn't have to go to find the materials himself, so he instructed Chu Shaoqiu to find the miscellaneous disciples to prepare peas, wheat and barley for making koji, and also asked him to prepare some grains for winemaking, and the koji mold was refined by Xia Lang according to the size he had in mind. Although the five of them had questions about Xia Lang's request, Xia Lang didn't say it, so they were naturally embarrassed to ask. Once all the ingredients were ready, Sharon began to make koji.

To put it bluntly, koji is a microbial colony, and the koji used in traditional Chinese liquor is mainly wheat koji, and later Daqu began to be used in the Yuan Dynasty, and bran koji was only used in modern times. Bran koji is made by the method of cultivating purebred microorganisms, and he can't do it under his current conditions, so he can only make Dakoji, which is the koji used to distill shochu.

The raw materials of Daqu are peas, wheat, and barley, and their powders are mixed with water in a certain proportion to make a microbial culture medium. Aspergillus is allowed to grow in the medium at the right temperature, and when the Aspergillus conidia form hyphae, the koji is formed. However, the production process in the middle is also more complicated, which needs to go through moistening, stacking, grinding, adding water and mixing, loading the mold, stepping on the curve, cultivating, turning, stacking, and outcoming.

In the process of making koji, Sharon asked the sisters to arrange a formation, which could make the temperature in the formation space about 50 degrees Celsius, creating good conditions for the growth of koji. The growth of microorganisms is based on stages, and there is no need to pay attention to them all the time, as long as the conditions are stable. In his spare time, Xia Lang confessed the blood of the ring given by his master, and a feeling of flesh and blood came from the ring, and all kinds of wonderful uses were transmitted to his heart, which was the magic of the magic weapon. As soon as his mind moved, the ring was automatically hidden under the skin, and the Haoyang Sword was included in the ring, and the principle of not revealing wealth must be observed at all times, if it is remembered by others, it will be troublesome.

Wu Yu also put a bottle of blood python blood in the ring, which made Xia Lang excited. As long as the Blood Python can survive the Heavenly Tribulation, it can turn into a dragon. Dragon, a powerful race, Dongfang Yimu Qinglong is one of the four holy beasts. The dragon clan's physical body is not good, in addition to being worse than the Xuanwu clan, and the phoenix clan and the white tiger clan are all top existences. Tempering the body with their blood can improve the strength of the physical body.

"Such a powerful fluctuation of vitality, such a surging blood qi can only be possessed by a blood python Jiao comparable to a dollar infant monk. Things are good, use them well, benefit from them, and if you don't use them well, you will die of yourself, and it seems that you have to calculate how to use them. ”

After a moment's thought, Sharon diluted the vial of blood into the tub. If swallowed directly, there will be no dead body, and only by diluting it can its effect be milder. Taking a deep breath, he jumped into the tub.

"What hot spring bath and milk bath in my previous life are weak, but this young master is still a cow fork, and he is playing with a dragon's blood bath!"

He felt a little proud in his heart, although this is not the real dragon's blood, but it is not a relative of the dragon? It's just that he hasn't been sneering for a few seconds, and a feeling similar to a pinprick keeps coming from all over his body, as if something is drilling into his pores from hard, and he convulses all over in pain. Xia Lang's skin began to appear in a large area of damage, after the blood of the blood python Jiao entered his body, the huge energy contained in the blood almost burst Xia Lang, although Wu Yu only gave a bottle of Jiao dragon blood in the late Yuan Infant period, but the energy contained in it was enough to compare to the true yuan of the whole body of a late Jindan monk, such a huge energy is not at all that the current Xia Lang can absorb all at once. The muscles of his whole body began to agitate abnormally at this moment, and blood vessels burst out on the surface of his skin, like earthworms spreading throughout his body, as if they could burst at any time. Xia Lang had to run the Mingyu Gong to refine the Jiao blood, and the severe pain stimulated him to run the exercises to the extreme.

"His grandmother is an immortal banban! How can it contain such a huge amount of energy! Isn't this forcing me to open up the True Yuan Acupoint again?"

The vitality in the blood of the blood python was too huge and too fast, so that he couldn't use this energy to break through the realm, it would take a certain amount of time to break through, but it was too late at the moment. As a last resort, Xia Lang could only repeat his old tricks again, so he began to guide a part of his energy to impact the Jizhong acupoint and Tiantu acupoint. Just like when the foundation was just built, there are too many true elements that are not easy to control, and the process of opening up is full of dangers, if it weren't for the experience, it would have been hung up a long time ago. When the two acupuncture points were successfully opened, his body was finally able to barely hold the energy.