Chapter 65: The Trial of the Medicine Valley (1)
Bai Yuxiang was already ready, and when she saw Sun Hao coming, she smiled and said, "Brother Sun is really on time, I just got ready, you came, you ...... Hey, you actually broke through! Brother Sun's talent is really excellent, congratulations to Brother Sun. ”
"Whereever, I just got the time to do it. ”
The two of them said a few polite words, and then set off on the road together.
Bai Yuxiang demolished the bamboo house where she had lived for a while into ruins, and still held the white fox Xiaojiu.
This beast probably still hated Sun Hao's pursuit at the beginning, and grinned at Sun Hao, which made Sun Hao want to laugh.
The two of them went out of Tianjiu City, walked for a long time, and arrived at a place with beautiful mountains and rivers.
Bai Yuxiang stopped and said, "It's finally here, this place is the Medicine Valley." ”
Sun Hao looked at the desolate place and couldn't help but be a little puzzled.
Bai Yuxiang smiled faintly, stretched out her hand to take the lead, and suddenly a barrier appeared in front of her, stopping the two of them.
Not long after, a monk who had cultivated to the fifth level of Qi Condensation came out from behind the barrier, and said to the two with a smile: "Two fellow Daoists, I don't know where they came from, what are you doing in my Medicine Valley. ”
Bai Yuxiang took a step forward and said: "Fellow Daoist, we are the loose cultivators of the Song Kingdom, this time we heard that the Medicine Valley opened the Valley to recruit apprentices, we also want to come and give it a try, I hope that Daoist friends can open the door of convenience." ”
When the monk heard this, he made a small opening in the barrier and led the two men in.
As soon as he entered it, Sun Hao found that there was a cave inside, and a deep valley with a width of 100 zhang was conjured, which was completely different from the scenery outside.
There was a group of monks standing outside the valley, looking at hundreds of people, all of them were cultivators in the condensation period, one of them had a hooked nose and a fierce face, and the cultivation of the eighth layer of condensation made no one beside him.
As soon as Sun Hao and the two came in, he raised his head and glanced at the two of them, with a look of anger.
This made Sun Hao secretly vigilant, this person was afraid that it would be difficult to provoke.
The guiding monk introduced, "All the people here are the monks who participated in the recruitment this time, and the two of them will stand with them, and it must be about to begin." ”
After thanking the disciple, the two stepped forward to stand with the others, silently waiting for the begin.
It didn't take long for dozens of people to come one after another, and there were several people who came together, and some monks also knew Bai Yuxiang and stepped forward to say hello.
At noon, two monks dressed in green clothes finally came out from the direction of the medicine valley, all of them were at the level of foundation building, and the sword flew in front of everyone.
Everyone hurriedly got up, and many clever monks had already begun to say hello.
One of the middle-aged Daoists stood still, looked at the more than 100 people in front of him, and said with a smile: "Today, I opened the medicine valley just to recruit disciples, and all of them are young talents from my Song Kingdom, so I must have come here for this reason." ”
Everyone nodded yes.
The middle-aged Taoist nodded with satisfaction and continued: "That's good, originally this apprentice trial was held in the valley, but I didn't expect that so many people would come this time, and our quota is limited, so I took it upon myself to set up the first level here, the seniority level. ”
When everyone heard this, they couldn't help but talk about it.
The Taoist coughed lightly, waited until everyone was quiet, and said with a smile: "Don't panic first, you must know that my Medicine Valley was able to settle down in the Song Kingdom, relying on alchemy, so I recruited disciples not to see the cultivation qualifications, but to look at the alchemy qualifications, to come to my Medicine Valley, you must learn alchemy, if any of your alchemy qualifications are not good, then even if you enter my Medicine Valley, there will be no good results, so I set up this level, for everyone." ”
When everyone heard this, they had no choice but to nod their heads and accept it.
Seeing that no one objected, the Taoist took out some jade slips, waved them casually, and gave everyone a jade slip.
He continued, "This is the first spell that every alchemist must learn, the method of chemical medicine. The function of this spell is also very simple, that is, to cooperate with the flame to refine the heavenly material and earth treasure, this is an alchemist's survival method, today I will give you half an hour, see how much you can master, I will check after half an hour, the first hundred can enter my medicine valley, do you all understand?"
Everyone hurriedly began to learn the method of chemical medicine recorded in the jade slip, and there was no sound on the field for a while.
Sun Hao took a look at it, and realized that this alchemy method was really mysterious, and there were hundreds of changes in this chemical medicine method alone, each change had to correspond to a different alchemy, and each alchemy technique corresponded to a different elixir.
This does not include the control of the flames, the familiarity with the medicinal materials, and the methods of dealing with each change, these basic methods alone are enough for people to study for many years, not to mention the content after becoming an alchemy master.
He rubbed his head with a headache, feeling like he was on a thief ship.
However, this is not the time to think about these things, and it is better to concentrate on learning the method of medicine as the right path.
"The fire starts for three points, it is for the soft spiritual grass, and it should be supported by sufficient spiritual energy, and the fire is five points ......"
From time to time, some people on the field began to recite the spells recorded in the jade slips, and most of them frowned, as if they were worried about the complexity of this method.
But Sun Hao took the time to look behind him, but found that Bai Yuxiang had a leisurely face, his eyes were closed, his spiritual sense penetrated into the jade slip, and a smile appeared at the corner of his mouth, which seemed to be in his chest.
And the man with the hooked nose didn't even open the jade slip, and sat in place with a calm face, his face full of mockery, and seemed to be quite disdainful of everyone.
Could it be that this person has already studied this method, so he is so indifferent? Sun Hao thought about it, didn't study it deeply, and continued to study this method.
Half an hour passed quickly, and the middle-aged Taoist coughed lightly, and said loudly with a breath of aura: "The hour has come, everyone stop!"
His voice was full of aura, which woke up everyone who was still immersed in the jade slip, and everyone covered their ears before they recovered.
The man continued, "The hour has come, and no matter what you have studied, stop there, and now is the time to test." “
He paused for a moment, then turned to another white-bearded and black-haired monk beside him who was still meditating, and said respectfully, "Senior brother, I'll trouble you below." ”
The white-bearded monk nodded, opened his eyes, and looked at the people below: "Everyone, I will preside over the following inspection link, and I will distribute some spirit grass to everyone in a while." Rest assured, these spirit grasses are similar in age and type, and they are all basic spirit grasses, which are most suitable for novice practitioners. ”
Everyone said yes.
The white-bearded monk took out a snakeskin bag from the storage bag, took out hundreds of spiritual grasses from it, and with a wave of his hand, distributed them to everyone, no more, no less, exactly one for each person.
Sun Hao took a look at it and found that what he was given to him was a very ordinary Amber Orchid, which was the main medicine for refining the Qi Replenishing Pill, and it was very ordinary.
The spirit grass in Bai Yuxiang's hand is also an ordinary spirit grass, nothing special.
The white-bearded monk lit a thin incense stick and said in a deep voice: "Refining these simple spiritual grasses does not need the assistance of earth fire, only the spiritual power has been refined, now the competition begins, please do it!"
With his order, everyone hurriedly began to refine the spirit grass in their hands, and everyone did not dare to relax.
But the hook-nosed man didn't panic, he slowly put the spirit grass in his hand, and as soon as the spirit power urged, the spirit grass in his hand began to smoke, causing others to exclaim.
The white-bearded old man also saw this scene and nodded with satisfaction.
But apart from this person, no one had such strength, and the second-fastest Bai Yuxiang also took nearly ten breaths to let the spirit grass in his hand start refining.
As time went by, from time to time, the spirit grass in someone's hand began to emit smoke, and when the pillar of incense burned a third, the spirit grass in Sun Hao's hand also emitted a little spiritual smoke.
Sun Hao breathed a sigh of relief in his heart, and his heart was finally successful.
At this moment, the hook-nosed man suddenly spoke: "Senior, I have finished refining, please accept it by senior." ”
The white-bearded old man stepped forward to take a look and found that the spirit grass in his hand had completely turned into a little crystal clear medicinal juice, and the medicinal fragrance was overflowing.
The old man nodded, and said in a deep voice: "The refining speed is very fast, and the loss of medicinal materials is very small, not bad, it is a good seedling, pass the test!"
But before he could finish speaking, the spirit grass in Bai Yuxiang's hand here also emitted a burst of aroma, and the refining was completed.
The old man stepped forward to take a look, and there was more appreciation on his face, and he said with a smile: "Not to mention the speed, the refining loss has almost been reduced to the minimum, okay!"
When everyone heard this, they couldn't help but cast envious eyes at Bai Yuxiang.
The hook-nosed man saw that someone had stolen his limelight, and snorted dissatisfiedly, but he didn't have a seizure.
Time passed little by little, and more than half of the incense had been burned, and from time to time some people succeeded in refining, and some people who did not control the fire directly practiced the spirit grass into a ball of charcoal, and naturally they were out miserably.
Sun Hao's refining was also nearing the end, and the spirit grass in his hand had already turned into nine points, he gritted his teeth and continued to increase the delivery of spiritual energy, only to hear the spirit grass make a thunderclap sound, and finally completely turned into medicinal juice, emitting a burst of medicinal fragrance.
Seeing this, the white-bearded old man stepped forward to take a look, nodded and said, "It takes a lot of time, but the maintenance of medicinal materials is okay, qualified!"
Sun Hao also nodded with satisfaction, although it was a little slower, but the first time he came into contact with this method, he was able to do this, which was already very good.
Finally, the pillar of incense burned to the bottom, and the last bit of spark disappeared, but the number of successes of everyone on the field was just over half.
The white-bearded old man raised his voice and said: "The trial is over, and anyone who has not succeeded in refining will be considered a failure, and they are not qualified to enter my medicine valley, please go back." ”
When everyone heard this, they couldn't help complaining, rejoicing, and sighing, and the middle-aged Taoist saw this, frowned, and said loudly: "Don't make noise, your strength is not as good as others, and you can't complain about others, if you are not qualified, please quit the medicine valley!"
As soon as these words came out, the bottom suddenly fell silent, and most of the unqualified people shook their heads and withdrew from the barrier under the guidance of the disciples of the Medicine Valley.
But at this moment, an unsociable voice suddenly shouted: "Medicine Valley seniors, juniors have something to say, I think this matter is unfair!"
The middle-aged Taoist's face changed, and he turned his head to look at the people who were looking at each other, and his brows furrowed.