Chapter 40: Nine Turns of Wind and Clouds, One Breath Becomes a Pill (II)
Guiyun held the sword in both hands as his chest, the magic sword pointed to the sky, concentrating on thought, and said in his mouth:
"I admit that I am still true, and now I will tell the Quartet: knock on the sky and fight, worship the loess mountains and rivers, call the wind and clouds and dragons, and tell the ghosts and gods of the thunderstorm to listen-"
As soon as the four mantras fell, the blazing words of early autumn noon seemed to lose their heat in an instant, and turned into a refreshing coolness. There is also an invisible air current, which comes from nowhere, and the void is injected into the gossip flags.
The changes are mysterious and mysterious, as if the heavens and the earth are listening, and the wind and clouds are responding.
If Yan Li had a spiritual root, he would be able to feel an endless stream of heaven and earth aura at this moment, floating from the endless void, hovering in the small courtyard, filling this side of the world.
Guiyun separated his hands, held a sword in his right hand, and picked up a piece of rune paper in his left hand, drawing a mysterious trajectory in mid-air, and finally lit it on the candlestick.
The flame of the rune paper "bang", the whole rune paper was burning, but it did not turn into ashes in an instant like ordinary rune paper, but slowly danced with orange-red firelight, like a lamp between heaven and earth.
Guiyun's feet also stepped away, stepping on the bucket, showing the mysterious footwork. The hands also cooperate with the guide to carry out a solemn sacrifice.
He continued:
"The spirit rune led the way into the dragon court and ordered the ghosts and gods to descend to the elves. ”
The Dragon Court is a god system outside the Heavenly Court, that is, the gods of the Dragon Clan of the Four Seas. The ancient sects, especially the Yun Sect, even if they borrowed the power of ghosts and gods, they also used the divine power of the Dragon Court.
Most of the people in the Central Plains believe that the throne of the Four Seas Dragon is under the heavenly court. With the strength of the Four Seas Dragon Clan and the number of the Sea Clan, how could the gods of the Dragon Court they believed in be subservient to the Heavenly Court?
It can be seen that the number of ways of the divine stick has been the same throughout the ages.
Guiyun chanted the mantra and danced, and the spirit rune with the fire on his fingertips turned into a blazing flame, rising to the sky, and disappearing into the clouds in an instant.
Immediately afterwards, the breeze rose in the small courtyard, like an invisible hand, playing with the surrounding flags.
In the breeze, Guiyun took another spiritual rune, lit it on the candlestick, and then dipped it into a bowl of cinnabar water, making the bowl of water as red as blood and shining. He dipped his middle finger in the red red water again, and nodded a little bit of each in the five-color rice bucket in front of him.
"The ghosts and gods of the Quartet should be sacrificed to me, and enjoy my Lu Mixi and listen to my orders. ”
The five-colored rice stained with cinnabar spirit rune water was thrown in the air, and most of them disappeared before they landed, and only a few grains fell to the ground, making a slight sound.
"Ghosts and gods enter the formation, open the cloud platform!"
Guiyun let out a soft sound, the magic sword in his right hand drew a mysterious trajectory, and the sleeve of his left hand flicked, sending out a little breeze. On the Dharma platform, the four pieces of paper placed in front of the golden chime stand up on their own, each clinging to a piece of golden chime.
Immediately afterwards, the Fu people spontaneously combusted without fire, turned into clusters of spiritual light, and drilled into the golden chime.
The golden chime suddenly let out a pleasant hum, and at the same time, the surrounding gossip flags were drumming separately, and the swirling breeze in the small courtyard swirled and poured into the Dan furnace.
The quaint bronze Dan furnace got the breeze and aura, exuding a rich fragrance and smoke, which filled the entire courtyard in an instant.
This cloud of smoke does not rise or fall, condenses but does not disperse.
And the Dharma platform that returns to the clouds seems to be placed on top of a cloud of mist at this time, exuding an ethereal and endless immortal atmosphere.
Guiyun didn't stop his hand, dancing the sword, and holding the finger, on the golden chime of the Xun hexagram and the separation hexagram, he flicked it lightly, making a buzzing sound.
"Xunfeng transposes, ignite the fire and open the furnace!"
The heavy bronze Dan furnace, as if held up by a mysterious force, slowly rotated in place for a week, collecting all the spiritual energy from all directions, and finally the head of the furnace faced Xun.
The breeze slowly poured in, and the starting point in the Dan furnace was warm, and the clouds and smoke in the field were more abundant.
The Yun Sect Dao Method is the best at controlling the wind and clouds and shouting thunderstorms, and the same is true of the alchemy derived from it. Therefore, the alchemy elixir has a mellow and long aura, light and peaceful medicinal power, and it is of the highest quality.
It is not a secret that the Danfang of the Qi Nourishing Pill is just a high-grade old ginseng as the main medicine, supplemented by Ganoderma lucidum, astragalus, angelica and other medicinal materials that replenish qi and strengthen the foundation, and then use other drugs to reconcile the medicinal effect, remove its fire, and finally refine.
Danfang can be adjusted according to the subtle differences such as the color and origin of the main drug, but the overall situation is roughly unchanged. For experienced doctors, this is not a problem.
In fact, there are also many doctors who directly use the Dan prescription of the Qi Nourishing Pill as a prescription to treat certain patients with qi deficiency and infirmity. Even some martial arts people will use this pill as bait to replenish vitality and improve cultivation.
It's just that its effect is too far worse than that of the Qi Nourishing Pill. Especially when used for martial arts, excess medicine residue and medicine surnames will precipitate in the body of the martial artist and accumulate into poisonous surnames. Although the cultivation is rapid for a while, after a long time, it will not only be difficult to improve, but will even damage the origin.
The mystery of the Qi Nourishing Pill is, after all, in its refining process.
Many medicinal materials are differentiated and combined in the Dan furnace, and in different times, different temperatures, and different humidities, complex transformations are carried out, and finally they are gathered together, and the medicinal surnames are reconciled, and the erysipelas are exhausted, forming a precious Xuanmen secret medicine.
Guiyun was obviously very familiar with the refining of the Qi Nourishing Pill, and while stepping on the fight, dancing the magic sword, he twisted the magic trick in his hand, flicked on the gossip golden chime, attracted the power of the ghosts and gods, and ran the Dan furnace.
The alchemy process lasted for two hours, and the number of tricks involved was not much, the total number was only twenty-four, but the time requirements were very precise, and if you missed one point, it would be a refining failure!
Counting carefully, in the two hours, the bronze Dan furnace rotated in the field for a total of nine weeks, and the clouds and smoke in the magic circle have been hovering under the agitation of the gossip flags, as if the heavens and the earth are flowing.
Finally, the head of the furnace turned over the position of the water and extinguished the fire, turned the position of the Qiankun and offered sacrifices to the heavens and the earth, and finally stopped again on the Xunfeng position, and absorbed all the smoke and clouds in the circle into the furnace.
This breath is the last key to the Nine Turns Dancheng.
All the holes of the Dan furnace are closed, and there is no trace of medicinal fragrance in the field.
However, there is still one important step in the whole ceremony.
Guiyun Bugang stepped on the bucket, dipped it in cinnabar spirit rune water again, sprinkled the sky full of five-colored rice, and drank in his mouth:
"Dancheng Nine Turns of Xi Gong is complete, and the ghosts and gods of the Quartet listen to my orders: accept Wu Lu Mi, follow my orders, and return to the position quickly!
The five-colored rice disappeared out of thin air, and then another fire talisman rushed to the sky, the eight-sided golden chime on the Dharma platform was silent, and the breeze coiled in the small courtyard also dispersed.
If it is a mistake to send the gods, it may be a great trouble for alchemists with low cultivation. Therefore, although this step has nothing to do with the success or failure of alchemy, it is essential. It is also a place where Shinto is more troublesome than Sendo.
Guiyun stepped down from the altar and opened the Dan furnace with Yan Li. Ninety-nine eighty-one Qi Nourishing Pills are lying quietly in the center of the Dan furnace, just the number of one furnace.
That's a few thousand taels of silver!
And for the alchemist, this is just two hours of effort, which shows that the alchemist's huge profits are even higher than the swordsmith - even if it is a swordsmith, it will take a day or two to cast a high-grade divine weapon in addition to high-quality materials.
From another point of view, how expensive is the real path of cultivation! The ancients did not deceive me when they were wealthy.
In fact, with Guiyun's cultivation and alchemy attainments, refining the Qi Nourishing Pill can completely merge several furnaces and refine hundreds of Qi Nourishing Pills at a time, just to demonstrate, and each step is completed with the most standard regulations.
Novice alchemy, not even requiring a whole furnace to be refined each time, thirty-six or sixty-four furnaces is a common thing. First, it can save materials and improve the rate of Dan, and secondly, it can increase the number of exercises.
After the Dan is completed, the alchemist who has cultivated to a high level can also urge the magic weapon to let the elixir in the Dan furnace fly out on its own and put it into the bottle. But for alchemists who don't have innate cultivation, doing so is just a waste of true qi and creating a gorgeous scene, which is far less practical than opening the furnace manually.
Of course, high-grade pills are different, many pills have special requirements, not only the recipe is more complicated, the process takes longer, and finally the time of the pill in the furnace is also limited, so you have to use mana to urge the pill furnace to vomit the medicine, that's another thing.
Similarly, the medicine before alchemy can also be used to urge the magic weapon, so that the alchemist throws it in the air, and the Dan furnace will suck the medicinal materials into it by itself.
It's just that for low-level alchemists, refining the pill is the goal, and the low-level pill does not need to urge the magic weapon to refine the complicated medicinal materials. Pietou or something, you can go to Java to rest for the time being.
At this time, it was past noon, and the two had a belated lunch, Yan Li went to do a routine inspection for Duan Heihu, and asked Duan Yan about the progress of his withdrawal by the way.
Duan Heihu is recovering well, and the young master is also retiring from the gang smoothly - the Hengjiang Gang wisely did not make it difficult. The only thing that was not as expected was that the gift from the Hengjiang Gang had not yet been delivered.
Yan Li couldn't help sighing, this group of businessmen under the banner of heroes is so inefficient. In the future, we will have to face the fierce Dongsha Gang, and the future of the Hengjiang Gang is worrying!
After dealing with this matter, Yan Li closed the small courtyard again and began the first alchemy.
With his qualifications and self-confidence, he directly skipped the half-furnace training stage of thirty-six and sixty-four, and the whole furnace medicinal materials were used. There were no twists and turns in the alchemy process, and in two hours, in one go, eighty-one Qi Nourishing Pills were obtained perfectly.
Since then, Yan Li has another title: alchemist.
This was expected, and Guiyun did not feel the slightest surprise.
It was Yan Li herself, who gained a few insights and reflections from alchemy:
First, there was no precise timer in ancient times, and the magic tricks in the alchemy process required accurate time, so they could only refer to the hourglass and rely on the alchemist to grasp the time from their own breathing and heartbeat, which was very inconvenient.
Second, the refining process of the Qi Nourishing Pill seemed to be mysterious, but except for the Yun Dan that absorbed the clouds and smoke in the Dan furnace at the end, there was not much place for the aura to intervene in the medicinal power. Does that mean that the entire alchemy process can actually be broken down, refined by conventional methods, and finally supplemented with an aura?
Thirdly, the prescription of the Qi Nourishing Pill is popular, and the core concept is to greatly replenish the vitality and harmonize the medicinal surname. However, the concept of traditional Chinese medicine is to look at the person who prescribes medicine, pay attention to one person, and the Qi Nourishing Pill is destined to not be suitable for everyone's physique and merit. So, can this classic prescription be adjusted again according to each person's physique?
It's a pity that Guiyun's alchemy is only studied step by step, and he hasn't studied too many alchemy theories. At his age, if he hadn't been doing things since he was a child and was extremely serious, he was afraid that he wouldn't be able to have this attainment, and of course he wouldn't be able to have an in-depth discussion with Yan Li.
Moreover, after Yan Li completed this furnace of elixir, the sun had already set, and it was close to the time to rest. He would never disrupt his practice routine for the sake of accidental thoughts.
He will follow his own pace, not in a hurry or in a hurry, step by step out of his own way, and walk to the peak of the sea of clouds.
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In the early morning of the next day, the broken wave knife stepped into the door on time to sprinkle and sweep.
This is a big news in Jianchuan City, attracting countless onlookers.
Among them, of course, Buchen's sworn enemy, the bloody Du Hong.
"Hahaha, Buchen, I can't imagine that overnight, you will become a street sweeper, how embarrassed!" Du Hong sneered, breaking the silence in front of the Wind and Fire Forging Gate.
Behind him, several brothers from the Hengjiang Gang laughed along.
Buchen is not alone, and naturally there are some brothers from the Dongsha Gang behind him. The two sides glared angrily, as if the mountain rain was coming.
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