Leaving the Taoist temple, Chen Fu saw Xuan Fuzi and Zhou Yang chatting in the square, and Liang Dengle was not there, and it seemed that he had not finished the exam.

Zhou Yang saw Chen Fu coming over, and hurriedly asked, "Brother Chen, how did you do in the exam?"

Chen Fu replied: "The martial arts test is okay, but I can't do the math questions in the morning exam." ”

"The admission of the monastery mainly depends on the martial arts examination, and it does not matter if the literary examination is conducted. Next to him, Master Xuan comforted him.

Zhou Yang also nodded again and again: "A cultivator genius like Brother Chen, it's not easy to get into the monastery. ”

Chen Fu asked curiously, "Why is Brother Zhou here? Is there someone in the house who is taking the exam?"

Zhou Yang smiled: "I'm here to find you, I heard my cousin say at noon that my cousin-in-law saw you in the exam room in the morning, and then I knew that you came to take the exam." ”

Chen Fu knew that Zhou Yang's cousin-in-law was the county magistrate of Gaoping, and he came over in the morning to encourage the candidates, and it was estimated that he saw him at that time.

Zhou Yang continued: "Recently, the pharmacy has brought in a batch of herbal raw materials and new honey, and when I heard that you are here, I want to wait for you to finish the exam, and ask you to teach the hired workers to concoct medicinal materials and refine honey." ”

Chen Fu looked at Master Xuan: "Master, do you think I can go first?"

Xuan Fuzi nodded: "You go, the list will be released at noon tomorrow, remember to come and see it yourself." ”

Chen Fu asked again, "Are you still staying here tonight?"

Xuan Fuzi replied: "We will stay at that inn at night, and after reading the list tomorrow, I will ask them to send them back to the village." I will stay in the county seat, and the other masters of the school will send the students over tomorrow to prepare for the exams of the county school, the government school, and the Beijing school the day after tomorrow, and I will meet them. ”

Chen Fu said: "Then I'll go to the pharmacy first, and return to the inn in the evening." ”

After teaching the hired workers how to burn medicinal herbs, it was already the beginning of the year, Chen Fuwan thanked Zhou Yang for his kindness in staying in Zhou's mansion overnight, and returned to the inn.

The next morning, he went to the pharmacy again and taught the hired workers how to refine honey. It was almost noon, and he rushed back to the inn and set off to the Taoist temple with Master Xuan.

When I came to the square, the admission list had been posted on the wall next to the Daoguan Mountain Gate, and there was a crowd of people in front of the list.

Chen Fu and his party slowly squeezed forward, and when they came to the front of the list, Liang Dengle took the lead in shouting: "Chen Fu, your name is at the top, the literary test is medium, and the martial arts test is the top four." Oh my god, you're amazing!"

Chen Fu fixed his eyes and saw that the admission lists of the Beijing Monastery and the Fuguan Monastery were written on two lists. The Beijing Monastery has only one name, while the Fuguan Monastery has twenty names, and its own name is listed at the top, next to which the grades of the various exams are indicated.

He continued to look for other people's names, only to see that Liang Dengle and Lin Chunling were on the list, while Zhang Wei and Li Zheng were on the list.

After reading the list, Zhang Wei and Li Zheng were silent. Chen Fu couldn't think of anything to comfort, so he had to pat the two of them on the shoulder.

This time, Fuguan Monastery admitted 20 students in Bipu County, and Linhai Village accounted for 3, which is quite a high proportion. On the way back to the inn, Master Xuan's face swept away the look of worry, and he smiled, but he didn't forget to comfort Zhang Wei and Li Zheng.

In the pharmacy, although Qi Zhuli didn't care much about the exam results, when Chen Fu came back to tell him the results, Qi Zhuli stroked his goatee and instructed Da Chun: "Da Chun, fry two or three more dishes for dinner." ”

Chen Fu hurriedly said, "I have air-dried jerky here." Then he took out a few catties of demon beast jerky from the prime minister's pocket, which he took with him in case of emergency.

Qi Li took it in his hand and looked at it, this is the meat of a third-order demon beast, it contains a lot of energy, and it is also very violent, Da Chun will definitely not be able to stand it. This kind of energy refining is relatively slow, so he uses internal force and directly dissolves most of the energy.

Rao is like this, after dinner, Da Chun sweats all over his body, and keeps shouting that he can't stand the heat. They worked hard to bring out a wooden bucket for bathing and put it in the front yard, which was filled with most of the half bucket of cold water.

Da Chun couldn't wait to step into the wooden barrel, soaked in cold water in the winter, and his head was still steaming. Qi Li sat in the rocking chair and looked at him with a smile.

Chen Fu's body was also very hot, but he could still bear it. He sat on a low stool and ran the Thousand Tribulation Casting Method, slowly refining.

The next day, they made concerted efforts to let Chen Fu start refining the second-grade quenching body pill, from one furnace to two in one furnace, and finally three in one furnace, and after refining for several days, a total of thirty were refined.

After refining, Qi Li said to Chen Fu: "I don't have the essence blood of the third-grade demon beast at hand, you have five drops there, you can refine two third-grade quenching pills first." ”

So Chen Fu refined two more third-grade quenching pills, leaving a drop of third-grade demon beast essence blood. Qi Li instructed: "After you go to Fuguan, you can find a shop called 'Treasure Hunting Pavilion' and buy demon beast essence blood from them, you don't need to hunt demon beasts yourself." ”

On the twenty-ninth day of the lunar month, Zhou Yang came.

"Brother Chen, do you guess how many spring pills were sold in more than two months last year?"

"A thousand?" Chen Fu didn't know, he said a number randomly.

Zhou Yang shook his head with a smile: "About ten thousand." The cost of each piece, including materials, labor, rent, taxes and other miscellaneous expenses, totals 25 yuan. Most of them are wholesaled to pharmacies, and the wholesale price is 75 yuan. They retailed for $150, and we retailed more than 1,000 pieces at the same price. Wholesale and retail, calculated down to a net profit of 600,000 yuan. ”

Chen Fu felt incredible: "Are there so many people in Bipu County who buy it?"

"Not only Bipu County, we wholesale to the counties of Jianzhou Prefecture and Fuguan City. This year, we are going to expand to the state capitals of Pingnan Middle Road, and then we will recruit more hired workers and buy more pharmaceutical guys. ”

"Then there is Brother Lao Zhou, everything is entrusted to you, I will go to Fuguan Monastery after the Lantern Festival, and I can't help at all. ”

"It's okay, you can go to school without worry, and the pharmacy will be handed over to me. Now that I have mastered all aspects of pill making, I can teach the new hire-ladies, and besides, there are the old hire-kants to help me out. ”

Subsequently, Zhou Yang took out a ticket of 300,000 yuan and stuffed it to Chen Fu: "According to what I said before, the dividend at the end of each year is yours." ”

Then he took out two 10,000 yuan coins and said, "You are going to school, cultivation costs money everywhere, this is a little bit of my cousin-in-law and my heart, I hope you accept it." ”

Chen Fu accepted 300,000 dividends and another 20,000 yuan, but he refused to accept anything in every possible way, and Zhou Yang had no choice but to give up.

In the New Year, Chen Fu had taken a total of twenty-nine first-grade quenching pills, and the fifth level of the mud fetal realm had already completed six internal refining, but there was no sign of a breakthrough.

When he was in the first level, he only completed five internal refinements before breaking through to the second level, and this was because in the more than a year before he was casting, he had laid some foundations by refining the meridians with his Yuan Qi. After that, starting from the second weight, each weight was refined six times, and it was also successfully broken through.

Chen Fu knew that this was a breakthrough in the Great Realm, and an external refinement was necessary. He discussed with Qi and wanted to ask the head of the military camp to help him open the joints and break through the realm as soon as possible.

Qi Zhuli disagreed: "Cultivation is a long process, don't rush for a while. Or wait until you go to Fuguan Monastery, and then ask Yan Tingshan Zhangke for help. You have to take advantage of this time to suppress the realm and polish your strength, and you must do the same for every layer in the future. If the strength of each layer is stronger than the same level, when it reaches the sixth layer, it will be much stronger than the same level. Don't you have a few hundred catties of demon beast meat? Although the demon beast meat is violent in energy and slow in refining and absorption, it can just come in handy when pressing the realm, and during this time, you often eat demon beast meat and carry out a few more internal refining. ”

Chen Fu put away the idea of breaking through, honestly stewed a pot of demon beast meat every day, and after eating, he ran to the bottom of the Baizhang cliff, soaked in the seawater, and ran the Thousand Tribulations Casting Method to slowly refine and absorb it.

On the night of the Lantern Festival on the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, in the front yard of Qi's house, Qi Li said to Chen Fu: "You are going to set off tomorrow, the outside world is not as good as Linhai Village, people's hearts are unpredictable, you must be cautious." Remember, don't be impulsive in a critical moment, save your life, and then think about it slowly. ”

Subsequently, Qi Li took out a jade necklace card, and the word "Shiyan" was engraved on the back.

"Your ancestor didn't create a school, so we don't have a name for this lineage, I use the word 'Shiyan' as a token mark, and I have my breath on it. When you arrive at the monastery, show this jade plaque to the head of Lehu Ping, and he will know your identity. In the future, if you encounter difficulties, you can go directly to him. ”

"In addition, this jade card is a space storage card, and I put some alchemy materials containing Yuan Dan and Quenching Body Pill in it, but there is no demon beast essence blood. ”

Then, he told Chen Fu how to open the jade necklace.

The next day, on the sixteenth day of the first lunar month, Chen Fu, Liang Dengle, and Lin Chunling left Linhai Village in a carriage.

It was Liang Shaoting who was driving, and Liang Dengle and his brother went to the capital after the New Year, preparing to take the exam of the Taoist Academy, and there was no way to send them to Fuguan.

(End of Volume 1)