Chapter Thirty-Six: The Old Man of Xuanjia

Like a landlord who has never seen much of the world, Heijiao can't wait to get into these treasures and bury himself at the moment.

Bing Xuanyue was prostrate at the door of the stone house, her eyes glued to honey, and she firmly stared at the three demon beast inner pills placed in the jade basin.

"Want to?" the black Jiao used his paws to weigh a purple Neidan the size of a begonia fruit.

Only the demon beasts of the Spirit Void Realm can condense the Inner Dan, and the Inner Dan has a great effect. Not only can it be used to refine high-grade pills, but after a top-level fierce beast of the same attribute devours the inner pill, it is very easy to evolve into a demon beast that opens up its spiritual intelligence.

The inner pill picked out by Heijiao was covered with a trace of black gas on the surface, and it seemed to be the inner pill of a highly poisonous species.

"Give me this viper Nedan, and everything else is yours. "Bing Xuanyue is very good at talking this time, perhaps it is the strong strength that Heijiao has shown just now, which has dispelled its idea of robbing.

Ye Qing controlled the black Jiao to throw Neidan to it: "Remember that you owe me a favor." ”

Bing Xuanyue hurriedly took Neidan back, and it wanted to help her sister, that is, the Azure Bull Python, open her spiritual wisdom.

All the things in the stone house were collected in one go, and the black Jiao also soared into the sky and returned to the Feiyun River.

Ye Qing was going to make a cave at the bottom of the Feiyun River, and then Hei Jiao hid in it to refine the pill.

The Feiyun River is connected to the sea at one end and the Yunshan Mountain at the other, and it is only more than two hundred miles away from the nearest place of the Giant Spirit Sect, which is very suitable for Heijiao to live temporarily.

Returning to the cliff at the bottom of the river where the prescription was engraved, Ye Qing found that the old nest was occupied by a king.

What a big king, this one is the size of a water tank, the shell is covered with a circle of black and shiny ribs and algae, and the huge skirt is like a refined kelp, swinging in the water.

"Good thing!" Ye Qing's saliva flowed out, and Wang Ba's whole body was the best on the skirt, which was all collagen.

Seeing a black four-cornered snake coming, this king opened his mouth and bit it, but was slapped on the head by a black Jiao with a paw and sent to the western sky.

Cleaning up this aborigine, Ye Qing looked at the cliff with engraved words, and then controlled the black Jiao to open his mouth and spray a real fire onto the cliff.

The hard rocky cliff turned red in an instant, and then cracked under the stimulation of the river, and the black Jiao stepped forward and slapped it with its claws, and suddenly collapsed into a large area. After a while, under the cliff, a big black hole was made by the black Jiao.

As long as a cave is carved out in the cliff that is higher than the water level of the Feiyun River, the alchemy shop belonging to Heijiao will be completed.

Fighting until the next morning, Ye Qing took his thoughts back, went to the Immortal Dao Academy, continued to listen to Wu Qingfeng's explanation of the dragon and snake bone training method, and continued to go to the alchemy hall as a handyman in the afternoon.

From today onwards, the work of boiling tiger marrow bone paste will have to be done by Ye Qing alone.

To be honest, Ye Qing really has no confidence in this job, and without the guidance of Senior Brother Lu Weixiang, he can't grasp the heat at all. As for the state of the ointment in the induction furnace, it is better to use a chisel to carve a hole in the alchemy furnace, and it looks realistic with your eyes.

Putting various materials into the furnace in turn, Ye Qing could only pin all his hopes on the hourglass.

According to the records of the previous times, the time of the tiger marrow continuation bone paste is about three hours, and there will be some gaps in the time of each medicine. The reason for the difference in time comes from the fire source at the bottom of the furnace.

The Red Tiger Copper Furnace burns flame stones, which are very similar to the characteristics of coal, but burn much longer than coal, and emit more heat.

The size of the flame stone is different each time, which will of course cause the time of the tiger marrow bone paste to be used differently. But in refining medicine, if the heat is not well mastered, the finished product will be a thousand miles wrong.

"I just took over, and I scrapped a few furnaces of medicine, so I shouldn't be kicked out of the sect. Ye Qing muttered to himself while immersing himself in transcribing those ancient fragments.

The fragment had already been half transcribed, and the more it was written, the deeper Ye Qing's anger became towards this Xuanjia old man. How long did this old thief live, or did he spend all his time writing books?

People who have never copied a book can't imagine what it's like to copy hundreds of thousands of words continuously. And most of its Chinese characters are not recognized, which directly cuts off the fun of reading while copying, making transcription extremely boring and mechanical.

Transcribe a thousand words, transcribe ten thousand words, a hundred thousand words.

This massive repetition brings with it a growing disgust.

According to the experience of transcribing in the past two days, the average fragment is 3,000 words. At the beginning, in He Jingjing's secret room, Ye Qing saw hundreds of fragments on the bookcase, piled up like a hill.

If He Jingjing, an evil capitalist, let herself transcribe it......

Ye Qing had the urge to defect from his master.

Just like that, he was transcribing boringly and mechanically, at the speed of changing one volume in half an hour, and when he changed two sheets, Ye Qing mechanically picked up the next volume, slightly stunned.

The gray animal skin scroll turned out to be intact, and there was no text on it at all, but a scribble, more abstract than Picasso's.

How do you copy this?

Ye Qing angrily wanted to tear up the book to vent his anger.

I'm going to put it aside and wait for the rest to be copied up. Then take it and ask He Jingjing, what the hell do you mean by putting this thing in it.

Ye Qing suddenly thought of a question.

It is likely that He Jingjing did not find that among these messy fragments was a complete animal skin scroll with no text at all.

Because the pattern on this animal skin scroll is like a ball of thread ravaged by a dozen kittens, Archimedes can't solve the complexity when he comes. If He Jingjing found out, she couldn't help but notice such a strange scroll.

All the scrolls were broken, but this one was intact, and a fool would know that it was extraordinary.

I touched the animal skin paper, the touch was delicate and soft, and I tore the corners with my hands without believing it, and I couldn't tear it any harder.

Baby!

This was the idea that Ye Qing instantly poured out.

So what kind of treasure is this?

According to He Jingjing's asshole and fingers, when she brought back this batch of fragments, it was impossible not to sweep them with her mind to see if she could filter out the things that were contaminated with aura.

It seems that you can only start with the pattern.

Thinking of this, Ye Qing stared at them intently, trying to find clues that could be used for research.

This search really allowed Ye Qing to find some clues.

It turned out that in addition to these messy patterns, the animal skin scroll was also printed with a grid after grid, similar to the faint lines of a backgammon board. If you take away the messy patterns, this animal skin scroll is like a chessboard.

What is the relationship between the chessboard and these messy patterns?

Ye Qing thought of the old man Xuanjia's love for arithmetic, and felt that there must be some kind of law in it that he hadn't discovered.

Reaching out and touching the messy patterns on the animal skin roll, Ye Qing, who was meditating hard, was suddenly startled.

These messy patterns can be moved.

Yes, just now he had no intention of stroking these messy patterns with his hand, and a line at the place where his fingers pressed was actually moving with his fingers.

Knock knock~

Ye Qing's heart beat like a drum.

can be moved, that means what they can be made of.

As soon as he swept away other things that were in the way on the bookcase, Ye Qing found a few pieces of rice paper again and used them for records. Then, with your fingers, quickly separate all the lines of these patterns that are messily kneaded together.

After separating these line patterns, Ye Qing's eyes suddenly lit up.

These line patterns are all numbers.

The evolution of writing in this world has gone through four times. Starting from the ancient hieroglyphic bone inscriptions, to the ancient astronomy, to the golden seal characters three thousand years ago, and then to the current Ye Qingxue's writing. In the process of step-by-step evolution, a large number of complex and difficult to write words were abandoned, leaving more than 8,000 words now included in "Shuowen Jie Zi".

These numbers in front of me are the golden seal characters of more than 3,000 years.

Compared to other words, the number does not change significantly during the evolution process. Because numbers are the most commonly used words in life, and they are also the most important words. From ancient hieroglyphs, to ancient astronomy. From zero to nine, these ten numbers have basically set the approximate stroke framework.

The ten numbers in the golden seal were not difficult to identify, and the reason why Ye Qing only found out that they were numbers now was that these numbers were connected by the ulterior motives of the old man Xuanjia.

The golden seal is characterized by the tactful brushstrokes, and the old man Xuanjia deliberately connected these numbers in a disorderly manner, which naturally looks like Picasso's abstract paintings.

After unlocking the crux of the problem, Ye Qing went to study those faint strips again.

Seven horizontal rows and seven vertical rows......

Ye Qing's mouth was dry in an instant, and his adrenal glands were like open arteries and blood vessels, soaring rapidly.

Forty-nine squares.

Legend has it that in ancient times, there was a giant tortoise carrying nine mountains on its back, and it appeared from the endless seven seas. From the shape of the mountain on the back of the turtle, people comprehend the ten thousand laws of heaven and earth that wear nine shoes and one, and the bone inscriptions used to record these ten thousand laws.

Before leaving, the giant tortoise left the nine-square grid for the ancient ancestors to solve.

After the efforts of the ancient ancestors to break their heads, the nine-square grid was naturally unraveled. And also imitated and innovated the 25 squares, 49 squares, and 81 squares.

How difficult is the nine-square grid to solve?

This can be seen from the fragment of Yinggu in the Legend of the Condor and using the Nine Palaces Grid to make it difficult for Huang Rong.

The nine palaces are so difficult to solve, you can think of the forty-nine palaces.

From one to forty-nine, there can be no repeated filling in the forty-nine grids, and the horizontal and vertical oblique additions must be equaled to one number.

If you fill in a few fixed numbers in the box of the palace grid, it can definitely force countless people into crazy complexities that can't be solved.

The problem was that the forty-nine squares in front of Ye Qing's eyes had not been filled in with numbers. In fact, it doesn't hurt to fill in the numbers.

One is the rightmost in the middle cell, two is one under the left diagonal, two is diagonally below the three, and three is diagonally below the four......

The nine-square grid without filling in fixed numbers is simpler than addition, subtraction, multiplication and division in Ye Qing's eyes. As long as you follow the solution formula, you don't need to calculate at all, just drag these numbers into the grid.

It took half a column of incense time, Ye Qing arranged these numbers in turn, and calculated them again with paper, which was accurate.

Something shocking happened.

When Ye Qing finished unraveling the nine-square grid, this beast skin scroll turned out to be ......

Nothing has changed.

Ye Qing was about to be shocked into a nervous disorder, why would there be no change?

Is the old man Xuanjia playing tricks on him?

slapped the beast skin scroll fiercely, Ye Qing was about to roll up his sleeves and start scolding, he not only wanted to scold the old man Xuanjia, but also prepared to scold He Jingjing together.

As a result, at the moment when Ye Qing's palm slapped heavily on the animal skin scroll, and was about to roll up his sleeves to scold, Ye Qing's head tilted and he fainted.

People are unconscious, but they are not unconscious.

His consciousness came to a gray room.

There was nothing in the room, except for an old man with a beard that was about to drop to the ground, and a wrinkled face.

"Refining medicine is like arithmetic!"

This old man with a wrinkled face, when he saw Ye Qing's first words, he made Ye Qing thunder.

"Another neurotic ......"