Mo Yan took out the yellow silk scroll from his arms, stood up, unfolded the holy decree with both hands, and said: "Luofu Mountain rushes to the void to receive the decree. ”

Wuchenzi was shocked when he heard this, and hurriedly knelt down on his knees.

"Fengtian carrier, the emperor said: I heard that Luofu Mountain Chong Xuan Feiyun Ding is very effective, and he sent Mo Yan to alchemy, but this treasure of the ancient Ding's thousand-year-old inheritance can not bear to be disturbed, so it is enough to refine one furnace. Chin this. March 22, the 46th year of Qianlong. "After reciting it, Mo Yan handed over the holy decree to Wuchenzi.

Wuchenzi received the holy decree with both hands, and his eyebrows were already frowning like earth.

"Lord Qincha, the Feiyun Ancient Ding treasured by this view is the 'alchemy bowl' used by Ge Xian Weng 1,600 years ago, and it has been sealed for hundreds of years. Since the first month of the eighth year of Yuan Taizu, the head of the Quanzhen Sect, Changchun Ziqiu, came to refine a furnace of pills, and it has not been opened for more than 500 years. Now the saint "has no dust, and the color of embarrassment is overflowing."

"Wuchenzi, do you want to resist the decree?" Jin Danzi, who was on the side, said suddenly.

"Poor Dao doesn't dare," Wuchenzi was startled, "Lord Qincha, this is"

"The old man Jin Danzi, the Ouchi alchemist, was assigned by the emperor to assist Master Mo in alchemy. Jin Danzi replied first.

"My lord, Poor Dao is going to inform the elders of Benguan, please wait. After Wuchenzi finished speaking, he hurriedly ran out with the holy decree in his hand.

After waiting for a long time, I didn't see Wuchenzi come back, it seems that the elders have different opinions, after all, it is to unseal the ancient Ding that has been sealed for hundreds of years, and it is certain that people are not happy, but in the end they will definitely agree, who in the world today dares to risk cutting off their heads and resist the decree.

About an hour later, Wuchenzi returned, he wiped the sweat from his forehead and said, "Let Lord Qincha wait for a long time, Poor Dao will take the two of them to Feiyun Cave." ”

Wuchenzi led the way in front and led them through the main hall, there is a pot-shaped furnace more than three feet high on the stone platform behind the hall, the bronze plaque is engraved with the words "Zhichuan Danzao", there is an octagonal pool next to it, and the stone tablet is engraved with "medicine washing pool".

"This is 'Feiyun Ding'?" Mo Yan asked.

Wuchenzi smiled embarrassedly: "The world comes to Chong Xuan Guan and wants to see the Feiyun Ding used by Ge Xian Weng Alchemy, and dare not hide the Lord Qincha, since the real person of Changchun left, this view is afraid that the ancient Ding will be lost and sealed in the Feiyun Cave, the 'Zhichuan Danzao' here is just a fake that hides people's ears and eyes, only for visitors to watch." ”

"Well, well done, after returning to Beijing after this mission, the emperor will reward him for this matter. Mo Yan made an official tone.

"Thank you, Lord Chincha. ”

Under the cliff of the mountain, there is a cave under the shade of pines and cypresses, and the heavy wooden door is closed, and a large rusty iron lock hangs on it.

Wuchenzi took out a long-handled key and twisted it for a long time, and finally opened the lock, opened the heavy door, and a damp and dirty musty smell came to his face, and there were many cracks in the stone wall of the cave, and the light from the outside penetrated in, and he didn't feel the darkness inside.

"No one has come in for years. Wuchenzi said embarrassedly.

It was a rather spacious stone hall, with a jet-black iron furnace more than three feet high in the center, which had accumulated dust and cobwebs.

"This meditation has never refined an elixir for hundreds of years, not only does no one understand it, but there is no material for alchemy, not even burning charcoal, all of which must be prepared by yourself. ”

"This is natural, the alchemy for the emperor involves the secrets of the palace, and I hope that no one will disturb me during the alchemy period. Mo Yan said.

"How long is this elixir going to be refined?"

"Seven. Jin Danzi replied.

Mo Yan changed into civilian clothes and drove the carriage out of Luofu Mountain to rush to the void, and went to Huizhou Mansion to buy materials for refining Xiaofei Yunding, while Jin Danzi stayed in the cave, and the Taoist priest in his own view delivered two meals at a time, and the alchemist in the palace was also a person in the court who could not be neglected.

The refining of Xiaofei Yunding is different from alchemy, Jin Danzi told him to first buy a pure iron alchemy ding furnace, and then fill the heavy stone into Ge Hong's big ding and calcine, so that the heavy stone will dissolve and slowly infiltrate into the small ding. This refining has extremely strict requirements for the control of fire temperature, and the flame of the charcoal itself can only be burned to yellow, plus the bellows is nothing more than white, which is not enough to melt the heavy stone, only to reach the extremely high temperature of the blue color, as for how to do it, he did not say.

The journey of more than 100 miles was almost a whole day, and it was not until the sun set that I arrived at Huizhou City. Mo Yan found an inn to live in first, and the man led the horse to drink water and feed, while he came to the grocery street in the north of the city alone, and after a simple meal, he looked for a place to buy and sell copper and iron utensils overnight.

It didn't take long for Mo Yan to buy a large bellows for blowing air and a thousand catties of fine bamboo charcoal, and told him to send it to the inn. According to the store, this kind of bamboo charcoal is made from old bamboo that is more than five years old, and the firepower is nearly 40% higher than that of the best hard charcoal, and the price is of course a lot more expensive.

There are several copper and blacksmith shops selling iron alchemy furnaces, the large ones are three or four feet high, and the small ones are less than a foot, and the asking prices are mostly between a dozen taels and hundreds of taels, but Mo Yan didn't even look at them.

"Guest officer, there are only a few copper and iron shops in Huizhou City, if you can't look at it, you can only go to Guangzhou Mansion, where the variety of Dan furnaces should be complete. The shopkeeper told him.

"Guangzhou?" Mo Yan hesitated, it would take two days to go to Guangzhou Mansion.

"Or you can go to the Ximen pawnshop, where people often pawn some incense burners and other things, and maybe there are also Dan furnaces. The guy kindly reminded.

Mo Yan inquired all the way to the West Gate pawnshop, and saw that a guy was closing the door panel, so he hurriedly stepped forward to ask.

"Previously, a scholar came to pawn an old iron furnace, which should be the furnace used for alchemy. The guy recalled.

"Can I take a look?"

The man took Mo Remnant in to see Chaofeng, that is, the pawnshop shopkeeper, the man was thin and short, and his triangular eyes couldn't stop looking at Mo Remnant, probably judging the wealth of the person who came.

"This is a good thing, an antique that has been handed down for nearly 2,000 years, and if you are not in a hurry to wait for money, you will not sell it. Chao Bong said.

"I'll see. ”

"Wait, officer, I'll get it for you. ”

Chaofeng took out a small black Ding furnace from the inside, about one foot two inches high, and it was also carved with an antique seal inscription, after careful identification, Mo Yan recognized that it was carved with the words "Nanyue King Wu Emperor's Imperial Dan Furnace".

"Emperor Wu of Nanyue is Zhao Tuo, the king of Nanyue two thousand years ago, and he is the ancestor of the scholar surnamed Zhao, who was sent to pawn because of financial constraints. ”

Mo Mo stared at Gu Ding silently without making a sound, all old antiques are easy to gather some unclean things, he gently opened the lid and glimpsed that there seemed to be a streamer flashing on the inner wall inside, and the whiskers were gone, so he wondered in his heart, what could this be.

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