Chapter 16: Alchemy
Jiujian Mountain is in the middle of the North Continent of Tianyun Continent, and it is a group of peaks shrouded in a sea of clouds. Because this sect has the same name as the northern forces of Xuanji Star, He Yi has also paid a little attention to it. In fact, this Nine Swords Mountain does have the same source as the Nine Swords Mountain of the Xuanji Star, but it is difficult to distinguish which of the two is the source. Maybe it was the Nine Swords Mountain of the Hunkun Realm that established the Nine Swords Mountain of the Xuanji Star after the ascending of the masters, or maybe it was the Heavenly Immortals of the Xuanji Star who descended to the Hunkun Realm and established the Nine Swords Mountain here, this is all possible.
After a few shifts, Jiujian Mountain is already in sight. That immortal mountain is higher than Yuntou, it is said that there are more than 380 mountains, among which the nine sword peaks are the main, and the rest of the mountains cannot be named after "sword".
Nine Swords Mountain has continued to grow in the course of thousands of years of fighting against evil paths, although the frequent wars in recent decades have also caused it to lose many disciples, but so far, this number one sect in the Heavenly Fortune Continent still has tens of thousands of disciples, even if you remove the miscellaneous servants with poor qualifications, it is far more than 10,000. This is a school that specializes in swordsmanship, but there are very few "sword cultivators" who use swords as golden pills.
The main peaks of the Nine Swords all refer to the appearance of the Heavenly Giant Sword, and I don't know if it is carved from a natural mountain or purely cast with great mana. Looking at it from a distance, nine huge mountain swords broke through the sky and pointed straight at the sky, which was still quite shocking visually.
Xue Chen worshiped the Sword Killing Peak, and was in charge of the attack among the nine peaks, and he was the one with the strongest fighting spirit. The mountain of Sword Killing Peak is relatively short, just past the clouds, and their sword seems to be relatively short, probably because the two-foot sword is faster than the three-foot sword.
He Yi flashed through the warning formation outside the Nine Swords Mountain and arrived directly at the Sword Killing Peak, and under the scanning of his divine thoughts, he found that there were three or four hundred people on the mountain, and most of them were monks with a foundation building and cultivation level or above, and the scene was quite prosperous.
Finding that he had returned to Sword Killing Peak so soon, although Xue Chen knew that He Yi was powerful, he still couldn't help but be a little shocked. It wasn't until He Yi asked, "Where is the child?" that he came back to his senses and replied, "On the mountainside to the east, there are a few wooden houses there, where we live." ”
Knowing the specific direction, He Yi moved again and arrived at the place where the wooden house on the east side of the mountainside was located. As soon as he walked on his front foot, Lori followed and appeared, and then threw down more than a dozen Sword Killing Peak disciples and chased after him.
The residence of Xue Chen and the others was just below the clouds, and as long as they walked up the mountain for a while, they could go deep into the clouds. The wooden houses that were connected together were all very exquisitely built, with bedrooms, stove rooms, thatched houses, and even a small alchemy room.
At this time, in the alchemy room, a little girl who was eleven or twelve years old and had just left her head was full of seriousness, holding a prescription in one hand, comparing it on the shelf containing various herbs, and taking some things from time to time and putting them into her small dustpan.
"What is she doing?" He Yi asked, looking at the alchemy room.
Following his gaze, Xue Chen knew that Xiao Ning was trying to make alchemy again. He sighed and said sadly: "Since Brother Chu's temperament changed greatly five years ago, she has been begging me to help make Brother Chu better. But Brother Chu is a heart disease, how can I cure it? In the past five years, he has often used the soul burning secret technique of his predecessors, and his physical condition has become worse and worse, Xiao Ning is worried about him, and begged me to give her the elixir to save her master. But over the years, our Jiujian Mountain has had frequent confrontations with the Evil Alliance, and the senior brothers need a lot of pills, even if I have more credit, it is impossible to get too many pills. So this kid ...... Let me teach her alchemy, saying that she wants to refine the best pill in the world by herself to save her master. ”
At the end, he let out another heavy sigh.
He Yi frowned when he heard this. Five years ago, the child was only six or seven years old, and it seemed that the swordsman of the Chu family did not bring her a stable life, but gave her more sorrows and burdens. Was the entrustment really correct?
In the Dan room, eleven-year-old Mo Xiaoning had already selected an appropriate amount of medicinal materials according to the Dan prescription. She cast a spell and released a faint flame, lit the dry wood under the iron pill furnace, and then began to put in the medicinal herbs one by one in order to refine them.
He Yi could see without divine thoughts that her cultivation had just entered the stage of qi refining, and this so-called alchemy was almost no different from the boiling medicine of mortals. It's just that the solemnity and persistence contained in the child's innocent eyes are a little moving.
“...... Green spirit grass, evening primrose...... Three quarters of an hour of Wuhuo, mix thoroughly, add white finch gall, Yimushu ......"
The girl's ethereal murmur could be heard clearly in this misty place, He Yi frowned, handed over Chu Yixuan who was in a coma to Xue Chen, and slowly walked towards the Dan room.
Lori didn't follow, just stood from a distance and watched.
Just a few steps, it's just a snap of a finger. He Yi knocked on the wooden door, and heard a snapping sound inside, and the dustpan for the medicine was put down. Then the wooden door opened, and the thin little girl shouted in surprise: "Master, you are back!"
Seeing that it was not her master, the little girl was stunned for a moment.
The person who came was not her master, nor Xue Chen, which made her a little surprised, but He Yi's appearance made her vaguely think of something.
He Yi gave a gentle smile, swept the blades of grass off her neckline, and said, "I haven't seen you for a few years, but you've grown so big." ”
Mo Xiaoning tilted her head to look at him, and after thinking for a while, she suddenly remembered that the person in front of her was the person who rescued her from the evil cage seven years ago. She snorted and said in surprise: "Uncle, why are you? Xiao Ning has always missed you!"
The little girl's innocent smile was deeply infectious, He Yi only felt a little suppressed at first, and the smile was also forced, but now it is really a little happy. He glanced at the scene of "alchemy" inside, nodded slightly, and praised: "You are like this, you really have the temperament of a little pharmacist." But the cultivation seems to be a little worse, and it takes more effort to do it. ”
After all, without strong cultivation, it is not easy to refine the elixir.
His words made the young Mo Xiaoning show embarrassment, lowered his head and said shyly: "Because I have been studying alchemy recently, I forgot to cultivate......
"What are you doing studying alchemy?" He Yi asked knowingly.
"Heal Master's wounds. He...... He was badly injured, the pills given by Uncle Xue were no longer enough, I had to make better pills myself to save him!" the little girl said with a serious face. Suddenly, she remembered that the person in front of her seemed to be a very powerful master, so she changed her tone and asked cautiously, "Uncle, do you know how to make alchemy?"
He Yi shook his head and replied, "I don't know how to refine the pill, but there are some pills, I can give you some." It's just your master's injury...... I'm afraid it's not that easy. ”
When Mo Xiaoning heard this, he immediately became sad. And at this time, when Xue Chen placed Chu Yixuan to rest, he also made a little movement, and she listened to it.
"Master is really back!"
The subtle sound was exchanged for the girl's exclamation. Then He Yi saw that she had directly crossed over to him, and he didn't care about the pill, and rushed straight to the wooden house next to him.
didn't stop her, He Yi just looked over there, feeling a little touched. Mo Xiaoning entered the wooden house, and after a while, she heard her crying: "Master, Master, wake up, wake up." Don't be like this, don't scare Xiao Ning anymore, okay, please~"
Although she was not on her side, you could still imagine her sad appearance with tears in her eyes.
Xue Chen told her that her master had already taken He Yi's elixir, and she only needed to sleep to get better. But now Mo Xiaoning is not such a coaxing three-year-old child, but he is even more sad to listen to, and he cried.
Maybe she had spent too much energy studying alchemy, and under this sadness, her thin body actually fainted.
Xue Chen settled Mo Xiaoning again, and then he had time to talk to He Yi.
For the big and small in the coma, his feelings are also very complicated, but it can be seen that he is still very enthusiastic about his friends.
He Yi didn't want to stay here for too long, and he didn't waste time at the moment, so he asked about the "madman".
Xue Chen knew almost everything, and he didn't hide anything, and told him everything one by one.
After Xue Chenyi's words, He Yifang knew that not only Mo Xiaoning had a relationship with the burned Yunlu town, but the swordsman Chu Yixuan also had a good past in Yunlu. Not only that, the relationship between the two of them is not only master and apprentice, in a sense, Chu Yixuan should still be Mo Xiaoning's uncle!
More than ten years ago, when Yunlu was still prosperous, there was a small building in Yunlu on the island in the middle of the small lake at the corner of the city, which was an elegant place.
Yunlu Xiaozhu raised hundreds of strange flowers, and also raised many flower-like beauties. Whether it is a merchant or scholar in the market, or a young monk from near and far, they all like to go to the island to enjoy the flowers with the beauties, listen to music and drink, and play with the wind and moon.
Back then, Chu Yixuan's master, Fengchen Sword Immortal, had just passed away, and when he was alone, he stopped by the island to rest for the night. Then, he and Yunlu Xiaozhu's first flower, Miss Yishu, began an enviable lingering relationship like a fairy couple.
However, that kind of life can't last long after all, Chu Yixuan, who has not avenged the revenge and was given a heavy responsibility by his teacher, only stayed in Yunlu for more than two months, and then left there and went to Jiujian Mountain to fulfill the last wish delivered by his teacher, Fengchen Sword Immortal.
In a flash, when He Yi appeared, it was the time for him to avenge his parents. Later, they rescued Mo Xiaoning, and the girl's father and mother also met Chu Yixuan, one was a lone knight, and the other was another Oiran of Yunlu Xiaozhu.
After He Yi left that night, Chu Yixuan, who heard that Yunlu had been burned, rushed to Yunlu frantically, and what he saw was naturally the same as what He Yi saw, all of which were ruins. It's just that he inquired around several times at that time, but heard that Miss Yishu was not dead, but was taken away by a group of mysterious people. And she was taken away with her four-year-old daughter!
Chu Yixuan didn't know that he was already a father at all, but when he heard those things, his mood was extremely complicated. In the next two years, he traveled several times and took Mo Xiaoning to search all over the world, but found nothing. Finally, in a stronghold of evil monks, I heard the news that a beautiful woman was tortured to death, and saw two bloody corpses, one large and one small.
Since that day, the word madman has been put on Chu Yixuan's body.
He Yi didn't want to say anything about such a story, he just felt that it was really not a good choice for him to entrust Mo Xiaoning to Chu Yixuan, who seemed to be in a good mood. But at this point, he can't change anything, and the future of the two can only be decided by themselves.