Chapter 3 Giving birth to elixirs
Chapter 3 gives birth to elixirs
Wang Zhi wielded a small hoe and carefully removed a few weeds next to the rainbow flower seedlings, and he was so drenched that he couldn't tell whether it was sweat or rain.
This elixir field is under the jurisdiction of the Tiger Gang, and after entering the rainy season, the weeds in the elixir field began to grow wildly, and the original manpower in the elixir field was insufficient, so they recruited workers from outside. Many people are reluctant to take on this kind of drudgery because the Tigers do not pay them and only provide two meals a day.
Wang Zhi didn't mind whether he had a salary or not, he only cared about food and clothing, if there was nothing to eat, he and the old blind man would really starve to death in the old thatched hut.
The elixir field is not large, but the hoeing work is difficult. First of all, many weeds grow similar to elixir seedlings, and it is difficult to distinguish them if you are not careful, if you accidentally hoe off the elixir seedlings, not only will you have no food to eat, but you will even be beaten.
The steward of the Elixir Field is an out-and-out madman, and he beats people to death. Wang Zhi had seen him beat to death with his bare hands a person who had hoeed off the elixir seedlings with the wrong hand. This makes every worker worry and work hard to hoe the weeds.
Secondly, I don't know if it's because the elixir field is too spiritually strong or because of the rainy season, the weeds grow very fast. As soon as the grass at the end of the ridge was hoeed, the grass at the end of the ridge began to grow, and it was impossible to keep up with the progress.
Wang Zhi has been in the elixir field for two months, hoeing grass in the rain every day, from morning to night, and only earning two sweet potatoes, which is the "two meals" mentioned by the Tiger Gang in the recruitment notice.
Wang Zhi's lunch was half a sweet potato, the other half was dinner, and the rest of the sweet potato was taken back to the old blind man. The old man and the young starved and depended on each other for two months.
Because of Wang Zhi's sweet potato, the old blind man's complexion has also improved a lot, unlike when he first met, he was dying. Now he would hold on to the wall and walk out of the hut, sit on the mound under the old locust tree in front of the hut that had grown for an unknown number of years, and wait for Wang Zhi to come back.
Every night, he urged Wang Zhi to cultivate the Dao Sutra, and after two months of hard cultivation, Wang Zhi had successfully refined and refined qi, and was in the second layer of the qi refining period. This kind of progress surprised the old blind man, and secretly marveled that although Wang Zhi started late, he had high understanding, good qualifications, and was a talent.
Wang Zhi was still a little resistant at first, but as he cultivated for a long time, he became more and more aware of the benefits brought by the cultivation mantra to his body, and slowly cultivated on his own as soon as he had time, without the urging of the old blind man.
Even when he was hoeing grass in the elixir field, he was secretly spitting out luck and running big and small weeks. This effect is very good, the aura in the elixir field is already rich, and it is very comfortable to breathe, and it feels like an hour in the elixir field is comparable to meditating in a thatched hut for a night.
In the blink of an eye, another two months have passed, the rainy season is coming to an end, and the work of hoeing grass in the elixir field is about to end. Wang Zhi also broke through to the third layer of the Qi Refining Period in these two months.
At this time, he had a long breath, his spirit was beyond that of mortals, and he looked energetic, without the feeling of illness before. And after these four months of hard work, his body is also stronger than before, and he no longer looks like a useless scholar who is helpless.
As soon as the rainy season passes, the steward of the Elixir Garden will be laid off, leaving only three people to take care of it. Wang Zhi was a little worried, if he left the Elixir Garden, he and the old blind man would have no food and clothing, and secondly, he already liked to work in the Elixir Garden while spitting, and he didn't want to leave.
When he reminded the steward to take only one piece of sweet potato every day in exchange for the opportunity to stay, the steward ruthlessly rejected him and gave the opportunity to the three people who were related to the Tiger Gang.
At the thought of leaving the Elixir Garden in three days, Wang Zhi's mood became very low. This depression soon turned into resentment, and then he had the idea of stealing the elixir.
During these four months of work, he had learned about the distribution of elixirs in the elixir field and the inspection time of the administrators. What he wanted to steal was not the elixir fruit, nor the elixir seedlings, but the elixir seeds.
The first two targets are too obvious, and he can't pass the administrator's check. Elixir seeds are different, there are too many places on the body to hide, so as to hide from the sky and bring out the elixir garden.
After this period of observation, he had already noticed that in the northwest corner of the elixir garden, there was a place where the elixir seeds were stored. Every year when the rainy season comes, there are always more or less elixir seeds that are damp and thus picked out and thrown away. His target was precisely these thrown elixir seeds.
In fact, this was the old blind man's idea, when he learned that Wang Zhi had the opportunity to work in the elixir garden, the old blind man once told him that if he had the opportunity, he might as well "take" some elixir seeds. Although he didn't know what the old blind man was thinking, he resented the steward for depriving him of the opportunity to work, and wanted to take the sheep by the hand and get back some of the reward for his hard work during this time.
When he left the Elixir Garden at dusk, the caretaker did not check for the "foreign objects" on his body, which made him secretly happy.
Back at the hut, he squatted on the ground and vomited.
The old blind man tilted his head, listened for a while, frowned, and said, "What good things did you eat during the day, you ate so much, and you vomited when you came back." After saying that, he moved his ass and leaned over to smell it.
Wang Zhi couldn't stand this old man, so he pushed him away, then wiped a handful of tears, grabbed a dozen seeds on the ground, and ran to the pool outside the house to wash them before bringing them in.
"Something, show it to me. "The old blind man came over.
"Are you blind, can you see?" Wang Zhi rolled his eyes and slapped the old blind man's hand away.
"I can't see it, but I can touch it. The old blind man was not angry, he smiled, and still reached out to ask for it.
Wang Zhi didn't have a problem with him, so he had to hand it over. The old blind man touched it a few times, frowned, and said, "What are the hard grains, what are them?" So saying, he shoved it into his mouth.
"Don't eat it, it's an elixir seed. Wang Zhi hurriedly stopped.
"What, elixir seeds? You, you kid is really good, you dare to steal chickens and touch dogs. The old blind man looked surprised, but he could see that he was happy, even a little excited.
"Don't shout, you want me to be caught and skinned and torn apart. Wang Zhi glared at the old blind man and cautiously glanced out the door.
"It's okay, it's okay, no one will come to this damn place. The old blind man smiled and stood up.
"What do you want to do?" Wang Zhi went up to support him.
"I was excited for a while, and I lost my temper. The old blind man laughed twice and pointed to the corner of the wall behind Wang Zhi, "There is a wine jar under the corner, you go and get it." ”
Wang Zhi walked to the corner of the wall, and sure enough, he dug out a black wine jar, shook it, and there was a sound inside, obviously it was not filled with wine, but some bottles.
"Tap!" said the old blind man, and was a little displeased.
"What treasure are you hiding in it?" Wang Zhi put the wine jar on the ground and stretched out his hand to open the seal.
I saw that there were three porcelain bottles inside, one white, one red, and one green. Wang Zhi leaned over and sniffed it, and there was a strong smell of medicine.
"Don't be fooled. The old blind man grimaced and said, "Take out the green bottle and be careful, the contents are very precious." ”
Seeing him so solemn, Wang Zhi couldn't help but be cautious. When he took out the green bottle, the old blind man asked him to take out three elixir seeds, and then dropped a drop of liquid from the green bottle onto the three elixir seeds.
Wang Zhi did what he said, and the liquid in the green bottle was green, crystal green, and exuded a strong vitality. As soon as it landed on the elixir seed, it quickly disappeared. Immediately afterward, the three elixir seeds sprouted and took root at a speed visible to the naked eye, and then each grew into a plant.
"This ......" Wang Zhihe had seen such a miracle, and was immediately stunned.
"The best is yet to come. Although the old blind man couldn't see it, he had already guessed Wang Zhi's expression and smiled.
His voice fell, and the changes in Wang Zhi's eyes regenerated. I saw that the top of the branches of the three elixirs began to sprout bones, and then the bones bloomed, and in less than a quarter of an hour, the buds ripened and produced small fruits.
"It's ...... Zhu Xin Guo, Landing Red and Changsheng Melon, how is this possible, these elixirs are to be cultivated for several years, it takes ten years for flowering alone, and twenty years for the fruit to mature, and now it will be completed in a few quarters of an hour, how can this be done?"
Wang Zhi's eyes widened, his face was full of incredible surprise, and he looked at the three fruitful elixirs in front of him, excited and greedy.
"Don't shout, do you want to die?" the old blind man scolded with a straight face, and urged: "What are you still doing in a daze, hurry up and pick the spirit fruit, the effect of the spirit liquid is about to pass, and the spirit medicine plant will wither." ”
Wang Zhi recovered from the shock and quickly picked all the spirit fruits and stacked them on the haystack. At this time, the three elixir plants withered at a speed visible to the naked eye, and finally turned into three dead vines.
"What kind of spiritual thing is in this green bottle, and it has such a magical effect?" Wang Zhi was shocked, his eyes staring at the green bottle in his hand for a long time.
"This is Jinjin jade liquid, which can not only raise the flesh and bones of the dead, but also give birth to elixir, but it's a pity...... There were only seven drops in the bottle. The old blind man was proud for a while, and then a little regretful.
"Jinjin Jade Liquid? There really is such a treasure, I thought it was just a virtual thing in the spirit of the Spiritual Object, so these spiritual fruits have medicinal effects. Wang Zhi was amazed, his face showing ecstasy.
"Hmph, it's not just as simple as having a medicinal effect, judging from the concentration of medicinal fragrance, it has a medicinal effect for at least fifty years!" said the old blind man.
"Fifty years of medicinal effect!" Wang Zhi couldn't stop when he heard it.
You must know that the elixir in the elixir garden only has a medicinal effect of thirty-five years at most, from cultivation to flowering and fruiting. Now, under the cultivation of Jinjin jade liquid, the spiritual fruit produced has a medicinal effect for fifty years, what a rebellion against the sky. If it spreads, the entire Dungeon City will go berserk.
When Wang Zhi was in a daze, there was a creaking sound in his ears, and when he turned his head, he saw that the old blind man was eating a vermilion fruit in his left hand and an immortal melon in his right hand.
"What are you doing?" Wang Zhi's face sank, feeling distressed that the spirit fruit had been ruined, and he looked at the old blind man with a straight face.
"Well, it's delicious, you can taste it too. The old blind man couldn't see Wang Zhi's angry eyes, and pretended not to hear Wang Zhi's anger, without the slightest awareness, he raised his hand and threw the two spirit fruits over.
"You're wasting the spirit fruit by eating it like this, and the medicinal effects are all wasted. Wang Zhi was very angry.
"Stupid, if you don't eat like this, you can still make a panacea? Do you know how to make alchemy? Besides, if someone passes by and smells the fragrance of medicine one day, and comes in and finds that you have hidden the spirit fruit, it is not a mortal sin!" the old blind man looked disdainful.
Wang Zhi was stunned, and after thinking about it, he felt that what the old blind man said was very reasonable. Since you don't know how to make alchemy, and you can't see the light, if you don't eat it, it will spoil, if you don't eat it, you won't eat it for nothing, besides, eat the spirit fruit as a meal, this kind of high-level treatment, there are only two of them in the dungeon city, there is no other family, why not!
So, one old and one young, gathered around the haystack and crunched and ate the spiritual fruit.
If other people knew that these two guys were so violent, they would probably vomit blood. Even Yang Gu, the defender of the dungeon city, also made the spirit fruit into spiritual liquid, and only ate a few drops every time he practiced, these two guys are good, just a few bites of a spirit fruit, it is simply annoying!
While eating, he was picky: "This Zhuxin fruit is sweet, but the meat quality is less, and it will be gone in one bite, this red gravy is enough, but the taste is lighter, and this long melon is ripe, and it dissolves in the mouth, and there is no chewiness ......"