Liu Zhendong was very uneasy when he heard this, and asked weakly: "Can't you take the assessment tomorrow?" There are some points that I haven't mastered yet. ”

Luo Li said with a frosty face: "Just the content of those pages, how long will it take you? Tomorrow after tomorrow, tomorrow is so much! 3 o'clock in the afternoon at most!"

Liu Zhendong hurriedly said: "It's okay at 3 o'clock in the afternoon, I'll go to read the book first after eating, you eat slowly." ”

Luo Li slapped the table and shouted: "Liu Zhendong, if you can't pass the assessment at 3 o'clock in the afternoon, don't even think about eating dinner!"

Ying Zi picked up the bowl and said, "I said it, this kid can't read books, you still don't believe it, now you can see Liu Zhendong's nature clearly." ”

Luo Li clenched her fists and said, "Maybe in the afternoon, Liu Zhendong can give me a little surprise." ”

Ying Zi shook her head and said, "Surprise? I think it's more likely to be frightened." ”

Luo Li sighed lightly and said, "No, there is not much content, I have put so much pressure on him, I won't even be able to pass the basic assessment." ”

Ying Zi nodded and said: "I advise you to prepare mentally as soon as possible, Liu Zhendong will most likely fail the basic assessment." ”

Ying Zi's words are really right, although Liu Zhendong worked very hard, he was seriously looking at the content of the book, but when it came to the assessment in the afternoon, Liu Zhendong's brain was blank, and he was very confused when he looked at the medicinal materials on the table.

Luo Li looked at Liu Zhendong and said, "No, right? With only a few medicinal materials, you are already in a state of confusion?" I seriously suspect that when refining, you will add the wrong medicinal materials, causing the pill to become poison. ”

Liu Zhendong stubbornly classified the medicinal materials on the table, Luo Li held back her anger and asked Liu Zhendong, "Are you sure that you are right to classify it this way?" I am giving you a chance to make changes. ”

Liu Zhendong knew that there was a problem with his classification, so he tried to reclassify it, then clapped his hands and said, "That's it, I've worked hard." ”

Luo Li slapped the table and shouted: "Are you stupid?

Liu Zhendong spread his hands and said: "I said it all, I am not sensitive to text and other information, and the time is too short, I can't remember so many medicinal materials at all." ”

Luo Li took a deep breath, closed her eyes and adjusted her mood for a few minutes, and said slowly: "There are only dozens of medicinal materials in total, this content is no exaggeration, half a day is enough time to write it down, you actually told me too much, the time is too short, I can't write it down at all, okay, even if you have dyslexia, now follow me to the refining room, I want to see what symptoms you have when you purify the medicinal materials." ”

Ying Zi shook his head and said, "It's all like this, don't you give up yet?"

Luo Li said coldly: "No, I'm like this, I don't hit the south wall and don't look back, and I don't give up if I don't see the Yellow River." ”

What else could Liu Zhendong say, he could only follow Luo Li to the refining room, and at this time, the table in the room had already placed the classified medicinal materials.

Luo Li pointed to the medicinal herbs on the table and said, "Start with the most basic refinement, and put the medicinal herbs on the table into the Dan furnace in turn. ”

Liu Zhendong began to put in the medicinal materials, Luo Li opened the valve, and an open flame appeared, and then Luo Li motioned for Liu Zhendong to sit next to the Dan furnace and began to guide Liu Zhendong to purify.

The purification of medicinal materials is actually very simple, especially for monks like Liu Zhendong, the so-called purification of medicinal materials, just to use the soul or innate qi to control the movement of medicinal materials in the Dan furnace, because of the material, some medicinal materials can not withstand the high temperature for a long time, must be isolated a little temperature, and some medicinal materials need to be roasted for a long time, and at the same time fuse several medicinal materials together, which is also a very important step, and the dosage and order can not be wrong, once it is wrong, the light will be halved, and the heavy will be the elixir into poison。

Purification is only a part of refining pills, and it is also the easiest part to practice, after a long period of practice, anyone can master the skills of purification, but refining pills is not so simple, especially dealing with the 'chemical' reactions in it, which is a great test of the pill master's on-the-spot reaction.

Luo Li basically guided the whole process, and the precautions for the purification of various medicinal materials were all explained to Liu Zhendong.

Liu Zhendong's purification process was not smooth, it may be the first time, or it may be because he has no talent, and it took 4 furnaces of materials to reluctantly satisfy Luo Li.

At this time, the purified medicinal material liquid was flowing in the Dan furnace, and Luo Li motioned for Liu Zhendong to start refining the Dan.

The pill refined by Liu Zhendong this time is very ordinary, called Jingxin Pill, the medicinal effect is to improve the stability of the soul, for ordinary people, after taking Jingxin Pill, it will improve the quality of sleep, that's all, it is very ordinary, so the difficulty of refining is not great, and there are not many types of medicinal materials, which can be described as an entry-level pill.

With a 'bang', the Dan furnace shook, and Luo Li squinted and said: "No, the medicinal materials needed for the Meditation Pill are all soft, and it is difficult to have the phenomenon of the fryer, you are also a talent, refining a Meditation Pill can fry." ”

Liu Zhendong shook his head with a wry smile and said: "I don't know what the situation is, I strictly followed your story, step by step, without the slightest hurry, and the result was still a fry." ”

Luo Li said calmly: "It's okay, I'm here once." ”

Liu Zhendong sighed and said, "Do you want to continue?"

Luo Li looked at Liu Zhendong and said, "What's the matter, I can't stand a small setback?

It turned out that Liu Zhendong really had no talent, and he scrapped 5 furnaces of medicinal materials in a row, and then he barely refined the Meditation Pill.

Luo Li looked at the baked meditation pill, she couldn't suppress the anger in her heart anymore, and directly picked up the pill and smashed it on Liu Zhendong's head.

Liu Zhendong screamed and covered his head, and Luo Li yelled: "What are you refining! It's just blinding my medicinal herbs! Get out, get out of here!"

Liu Zhendong couldn't ask for it, and hurriedly withdrew from the refining room, Luo Li took a few deep breaths, barely suppressed the anger in her heart, and grabbed the meditation pill on the ground.

With a "poof", the Meditation Pill shattered, Luo Li observed the broken dregs of the elixir, and then picked up some of the crumbs and put them in a glass of water.

The sound of 'Gollum' kept coming out, Luo Li's face was blue, Liu Zhendong was really a 'talent', a pill with feminine attributes, I don't know why it became a strong pill alive, if it wasn't for Luo Li who supervised the entire refining process, I seriously suspected that Liu Zhendong had misplaced the medicinal materials.

Luo Li shook her head and was about to leave the refining room, when she suddenly noticed something unusual, and picked up the water cup where she put the pill residue.

The more I looked at it, the more strange I felt, this glass of water had been 'polluted', but it was not toxic, but it exuded a fragrance, which was the medicinal fragrance of the perfect grade of Jingxin Pill when it was formed, and it was impossible for Lori to be mistaken.

In a slightly skeptical gaze, Luo Li still firmly believed in her judgment, took a sip of water, and her eyes lit up in an instant.

Luo Li took a big sip directly, then closed her eyes and tasted the taste, and said with emotion: "That's right, it is indeed the effect brought by the perfect grade of the Meditation Pill, it's strange, why is it that the residue can only show the effect when it enters the water, and when it is formed, it is a scrap grade." ”

Luo Li was a little puzzled, and began to test the remaining medicinal materials in the Dan furnace, after some testing, Luo Li found a problem, Liu Zhendong was indeed making Jingxin Pill according to the steps she taught, and the remaining medicinal materials in the Dan furnace can explain the problem, but why is it in this form when it is baked, it shouldn't be.

Lori was confused, and after taking a lot of photos, she sent them to her master, along with a lot of texts, hoping that the master would solve her confusion.

Luo Li's master, Huang Yaoshi, was also very puzzled, judging from the description of the pictures and words, such a situation should not occur.

Huang Yaoshi communicated with Luo Li on the phone, and finally asked Luo Li to carefully observe Liu Zhendong's movements when refining to ensure that no detail was missed.

Liu Zhendong completely gave up the idea of refining the pill at this time, and was controlling the silver needle in the room, immersed in switching between the three forms of aggregation and separation.

Luo Li didn't care so much, and directly kicked open Liu Zhendong's bedroom door, startling Liu Zhendong and almost losing control of the silver needle.

Liu Zhendong took back the silver needle and asked, "Why don't you knock on the door or shout, I'm so scared that I almost attacked you." ”

Luo Li said nonchalantly: "Your three-legged cat's swordsmanship can't hurt me at all, don't talk nonsense, go to the refining room with me." ”

Liu Zhendong sighed and said, "What is this for, isn't it already an experiment? I don't have the talent to refine pills at all, why do you say that you are so dead-eyed." ”

Luo Li squinted and said, "Come with me, don't you want to have dinner!"

Liu Zhendong followed behind Luo Li dejectedly, and stepped into the refining room again, at this time, the Dan furnace had only been extinguished for a long time, and the temperature of the entire room was extremely high.

Liu Zhendong sniffed vigorously and said, "What a fragrant smell, what kind of pill did you refine just now?"

Luo Li sorted the medicinal materials and said, "Hurry up and start refining the Meditation Pill and follow the steps I just taught, you won't forget it, right?"

Liu Zhendong sighed lightly and said, "Look down on people less, it's only been a long time, how can I forget." ”

As the so-called handsome is only three seconds, the first two medicinal materials Liu Zhendong was placed correctly, and when the third medicinal material was put in, it was stuck, so he could only ask Luo Li for help in embarrassment.

Luo Li rolled her eyes and retold the order of refining Chinese medicinal materials into the furnace, and by the way, re-explained the precautions when purifying.

Liu Zhendong nodded, and began to refine the pill according to Luo Li's description, this time Luo Li had more than half of her energy on Liu Zhendong's body, carefully observing Liu Zhendong's every move.

The second time he entered the refining room, Liu Zhendong's performance was much better, and he successfully purified all the medicinal materials the first time, and the next thing was refining.

Refining pills is not an easy job, at any time we must pay attention to the distance between the essence of each separated medicinal material, as well as the reactions generated, to discharge impurities and substances that conflict with the efficacy of the medicine in time, in addition to paying attention to the temperature of the pill furnace, timely heat preservation or cooling.

This is not the end, because the refining of the elixir is divided into three stages, the previous purification can only be regarded as the first stage, the professional term is the preparatory stage, the current separation and fusion, the fusion stage, and finally the molding stage, which is the most error-prone stage in the entire refining process, in addition to continuing to maintain stability, the molding stage also needs the main so-called 'mutation'.

The mutation here refers to the attributes of the medicinal materials themselves, just like people have essence and spirit, the medicinal materials that can refine the high-grade elixir naturally have their own' Essence and spirit', in the first 2 stages, the resistance shown is very little or even not, when it is really formed, no one knows what will happen, because everyone's essence and spirit will not be exactly the same, although the monk has classified the characteristics of various essences and gods, for example, Liu Zhendong's innate qi belongs to the attribute of partial yin, can only cultivate and release the yin thunder, can not release the thunder of Lao Mouzi, but this does not mean that all the innate qi of the partial yin attribute, the sound wave thunder released is the same, it may be the same in general, but the subtleties are actually very different, which is more prominent when refining the elixir。

Liu Zhendong's innate qi is a kind of gas between the innate and the acquired, normally the innate qi is difficult to mutate, after all, this is something that is determined from birth, but in reality there are still a small number of people, there will be mutated emotions, the simplest example is Ying Zi, before the age of 15, Ying Zi's innate qi has been showing a very active state, according to the characteristics of the time, Ying Zi is very suitable for cultivating the three sects of Qi Sect, as a result, as soon as he is 15 years old, Ying Zi's innate qi began to lose a lot, and the attributes presented are not partial yang, but turned into yin attributes, and at the same time, their own divine soul began to increase day by day, which is called in the monk world'False yang', if it is a particularly strong performance of the soul in the youth, and then gradually lost, it will be called "false yin", as for the spirit is much better, it is unlikely to be reversed and lost, of course, there are exceptions, but the consequences of the passage of the spirit are particularly serious, basically once the rebellion occurs, it is difficult to survive nine times out of ten, this phenomenon is called 'pseudo-cultivation', it is the most serious kind of rebellion, the survival rate is very low, but it is the 'false yang'' The survival rate of the false yin is very high, and if it is detected in time, there is a great chance that it will be able to survive and continue to cultivate.

The innate qi in Liu Zhendong's body is very complicated, and it belongs to a rebellion that originally occurred, but fortunately, Liu Zhendong has no foundation for cultivation, so after the rebellion, he was only weak and stayed in the hospital for a period of time, and his life was not in danger.

However, when he was in his twenties, he was artificially activated to enlighten the spirit, which led to the activation of the innate qi of rebellion, and then led to the second rebellion, the so-called negative negative is positive, Liu Zhendong's current innate qi is quite special, on the surface, it belongs to the yin, but in fact it belongs to the pure yang qi, even stronger than the innate qi of Lao Mouzi, and it belongs to the highest level of 'true qi', far exceeding Lao Mouzi's 'yang qi'.

This is also why the pill refined by Liu Zhendong is so strange, obviously the outermost waste grade pill, after being completely separated, the residue inside is a perfect grade pill.

Liu Zhendong still scrapped 3 times, only to successfully bake the meditation pill for the 4th time, at this time Liu Zhendong was sweating profusely, and there was no way to refine the pill was also quite a consumption of essence and energy, he had already refined several Dan furnaces in a row, and purified more than ten times, naturally very tired.

Luo Li looked at the Meditation Pill in front of her and frowned, the Meditation Pill at this time was almost the same as the one refined before, they all belonged to the waste grade of the grade, not only did there be no fragrance emanating, the appearance was extremely tough, normally the skin should be elastic, and the color was not quite right, the best perfect grade was naturally pure and flawless, and now the Meditation Pill in front of her was not only not white, but even a little yellow.

Luo Li knocked on the Tranquility Pill with her thumb, and the Tranquility Pill was broken into several pieces in an instant, and the medicinal fragrance still did not appear at this time, until it was crushed again, and only a small part of the innermost part was left, only a trace of the medicinal fragrance appeared, according to the evaluation criteria of the Tranquility Pill, this is a very poor grade, only a little better than the most inferior scrapped grade.

Liu Zhendong asked in a low voice, "Is there a problem with my elixir refining?"

Luo Li squinted her eyes and said, "The problem is too big, I'm a little confused, why did you refine it like this." ”

Liu Zhendong said softly: "I said it, I don't have this talent, you don't believe it, rotten wood can't be carved, mud can't support the wall, why are you so stubborn." ”

Luo Li scolded angrily: "Shut up! There is a futon over there, meditate cross-legged to recover your spirit, and continue refining the meditation pill later." ”

Liu Zhendong sighed lightly and said, "Isn't it, do you want to continue?"

Luo Li slapped Liu Zhendong on the back of the head and said, "Don't go yet!"

Liu Zhendong touched the back of his head very aggrieved, sat cross-legged on the futon obediently, and began to close his eyes and run the exercises to recover consumption.

Luo Li began to continue to analyze the Meditation Pill refined by Liu Zhendong, took out dozens of water cups respectively, and took notes while putting in the residue of the pill.

The degree of reaction of the cups varies, from some residues entering the water at all, while others react violently.

Luo Li took pictures while recording, and at the same time recorded some of her thoughts in the notebook, which was quickly filled with dozens of pages, and passed on to the medicine king Huang Yaoshi after taking pictures.

After seeing the photos sent by Luo Li, Huang Yaoshi dialed Luo Li's phone number and communicated and exchanged with Luo Li.

Huang Yaoshi's preliminary judgment is that Liu Zhendong's innate qi or divine soul is a little special, and it is possible that in some small steps, he did not strictly follow the standard method of operation, and he did not follow the standard in dealing with this part, which caused such a peculiar phenomenon.

In the end, Huang Yaoshi asked Luo Li to continue to observe, and asked Liu Zhendong to refine more pills and patiently collect more samples.

Huang Yaoshi said on the phone: "If it really doesn't work, I'll come to Zhongzhou, I'm very interested in the phenomenon you said, maybe Liu Zhendong is a genius and is suitable for the pill." ”

Luo Li rolled her eyes and said: "Master, don't say anything else, I have never seen a so-called genius, when refining the basic pill of the Meditation Pill, he can blow up the furnace dozens of times, this is simply a stupid donkey among stupid donkeys." ”

Huang Yaoshi said embarrassedly: "Maybe it's because Liu Zhendong's innate qi or divine soul is relatively special, and he hasn't mastered it well for a while, you are observing for a while, if the success rate of refining is still not high after a long time of refining, it proves that Liu Zhendong's talent is not very good, and it all depends on the mutated innate qi or divine soul." ”

Luo Li snorted and said, "According to my previous test, I dare to guarantee that nine times out of ten, there is a problem with Liu Zhendong's innate qi, which caused such a strange phenomenon, and the so-called genius theory is not valid at all." ”

Huang Yaoshi hung up the phone a little embarrassed, and Luo Li squinted at Liu Zhendong who was running the exercises, with a curious light in her eyes.

Luo Li has already done an analysis just now, the closer to the core of the pill, the higher the quality of the Jingxin pill, the outermost residue is indeed the scrap grade (9 grades), and then it is extremely poor, poor, poor, good, good, excellent, excellent, until the most central residue shows a perfect grade (1 grade).

A pill completely shows all the 9 grades of the pill, Luo Li still admires Liu Zhendong very much, and can only sigh that Liu Zhendong is a ghost!

Luo Li began to think back to Liu Zhendong's refining process just now, there seemed to be no special location, it seemed that there was a high probability that Liu Zhendong's innate qi and divine soul were problematic.

Then Liu Zhendong was woken up rudely, and in Luo Li's coercion and anger, Liu Zhendong started refining extremely reluctantly.

With the increase in the number of refining, Liu Zhendong's success rate is getting higher and higher, and he had to scrap several furnaces before he could successfully refine 1 time, and in the middle of the night, Liu Zhendong basically refined 3 times and was able to successfully bake 2 times.

Luo Li took the Jingxin Pill that had been successfully refined, and continued to analyze, while analyzing the elixir, she asked Liu Zhendong to seize the time to rest.

Liu Zhendong was a little unhappy, and said: "There is too much time delayed today, how many furnace pills have I refined, even if my body can withstand it, have you considered the feelings of medicinal materials?"

After glancing at Liu Zhendong, Luo Li said: "Forget it, let's do this today, you go back to rest first, and I'll come to you tomorrow." ”

Liu Zhendong squinted his eyes and asked: "By the way, you have always asked me to refine the pill, or the kind of method of roaring and beating, is it that my pill talent is particularly outstanding, which makes you a little unconvinced, so I have been refining it several times, wanting to confirm whether I am really a refining genius!"

When Luo Li heard these words, she almost vomited, and said in disgust: "Don't blow it, you are just a puddle of mud, you are still a genius, get out, get out of here, I will be upset when I see you." ”

Liu Zhendong withdrew from the room with a smile, and at the same time breathed a sigh of relief in his heart, it seems that he really does not have the talent to refine pills, so it is okay to concentrate on practicing the human exercises.

Luo Li began to analyze the elixir and found that Liu Zhendong's refining talent may not be a genius, but he also has a certain talent, at least there is still progress, and the outermost pill residue has reached a very poor grade (8 grades).