Fairy cage

In the cave, the smell of blood appeared, making Yu Lie's eyelids twitch slightly.

As soon as he raised his head, he saw She Shuangbai staring directly at the lump of flesh and blood in front of him. He immediately understood that the other party probably had the same idea as him and planned to directly try to break through to the eighth-level Taoist realm in the wild. Got it!

As expected, She Shuangbai murmured:

"Brother Yu, if you and I continue to go like this, if we make the slightest mistake, we may fall into the belly of the monster. Even if we are lucky, we don't lose our lives and suffer some serious injuries. You and I have worked hard. The foundation of physical fitness that has been built up for many years may be lost in one day, and it will be wasted for several years, making it even harder to break through..."

As she spoke, she looked at Yu Lie calmly and said:

"Qianjun, Pindao plans not to go there yet. He plans to collect some useful medicinal materials in the barren mountains and ridges to use them as substitutes to complete his transformation and promotion. I wonder if Brother Yu has any other suggestions?"

Yu Lie listened and knew that the other party had already made a decision. He just hoped that he could help check for any leaks, collect some medicinal materials, and lend a hand.

Without thinking too much, Yu Lie nodded and said in a deep voice:

"Yes. Even if fellow Taoist friends don't say it, Pindao will mention it. You and I have been traveling in the wild for more than a month. Although we haven't run out of food yet, we will soon. If we don't take advantage of it now, Once you have something, start preparing for transformation, and when you finally run out of resources, it will be even more troublesome."

He cupped his hands and said, "Brother She, just give me your orders. If there is any need for Yu to take action, just say so."

After a pause, Yu Lie added: "We have been together for dozens of days, and we are quite familiar with each other. At this important juncture, there is no need to be polite and aloof."

Hearing Yu Lie's words, She Shuangbai's eyes also showed meaning. She stood up and sincerely thanked Yu Lie:

"Thank you, Brother Yu."

Yu Lie also stood up and bowed in return.

There was actually one thing that was not stated clearly in the conversation between the two, but both parties knew it well.

More than a month ago, the reason why they left for Qianjun was to rent a spiritual quiet room in Qianjun to assist their transformation.

This is not only because the conditions in the wild are too difficult, and the spiritual quiet room will indeed help the Taoist's transformation, but the more important reason is that neither of them dares to transform in front of the other person.

Because no matter who transforms first, both parties have to worry that the other party may take action during the transformation process, affecting their transformation, or even killing people.

And if the transformed person succeeds, those who have not yet completed the transformation have to worry that the former will take action against them and snatch the other half of the lizard flesh and blood in their bag.

It should be noted that the environment the two of them are in now is a complete wilderness, with no laws at all, and they are surrounded by ferocious beasts and monsters that prey on the weak.

Here, no matter how talented you are and how mysterious your background is, once you die, it will be like a dead dog. There is no difference and no one will know.

And if the two separate first and go to find a place to transform, then they have to worry that while they are transforming, they will be visited by ferocious beasts and spirits and become the prey of the monster.

After all, this place is no better than the "wilderness" within the three towns of Heihe. This is a naked no-man's land, where ferocious beasts are rampant, spirits are infested, and all kinds of strange monsters are found. Especially recently, creatures from the lizard world have arrived, everywhere. It's all fighting and fighting, and all kinds of ferocious beasts and monsters have been beaten to their wits.

The reason why the two of them have been able to travel across the wild for more than a month without being seriously injured is because they help each other and each has their own benefits.

Fortunately, after dozens of days of getting along day and night, sharing weal and woe, the relationship between the two has deepened, and they have somewhat understood each other's personality. Coupled with the past friendship, they also have a foundation of trust.

Otherwise, without the mutual help and hardships along the way, neither of them would really dare to take the risk of trying to transform.

Among them, Yu Lie looked at the firm and fiery look in the other person's eyes and secretly thought:

"This person is undergoing transformation first, and I can help and watch him. I can also learn some lessons from him, which I can use when I am promoted."

To break through from a ninth-grade Taoist boy to an eighth-grade Taoist disciple, it only requires one more change, the same as the previous times. However, this level is a transformation that determines the level of a Taoist's life. It is a transformation in a large realm. Its significance and difficulty are not comparable to those in a small realm.

If successful, the Taoist will leap from a ninth-level creature to an eighth-level creature, condense his true energy, and from then on he can learn spells, completely transcend the world, become a person in the immortal way, live a little like a human in the world of mountains and seas, and have some privileges .

And if you fail, the losses and sequelae will be much more serious than the transformation of the small realm. Ordinary people basically only have three attempts in their lifetime.

Therefore, facing this kind of transformation, Yu Lie cannot be too cautious. And if he can witness others completing a transformation with his own eyes, the harvest for his own transformation will undoubtedly be huge.

In the cave, the two of them exchanged a few words.

In the following time, the remaining two rested for a while and then left the cave.

Since they are going to take the food to transform, the two of them have to stay somewhere for at least ten days and a half to arrange the cave and find out the situation of the monsters around them. They cannot just find a place to live.

At Yu Lie's suggestion, they finally used the few trapping talismans and stone-opening talismans they had in their bags to dig out a cave on a straight and steep rock cliff and arranged an escape exit from the Three Caves of the Cunning Rabbit. .

After having a fixed residence, the situation of the two of them in the wild became much better for a while. They no longer had to sleep in the open air, exposed to the sun and rain, and lived like savages.

For more than half a month, the two of them traveled in the morning and returned to the cave in the evening, collecting medicinal herbs, cutting Ganoderma lucidum, and looking for wild animals, looking for various things that could help in the transformation of food, and concocting them into medicines.

During this period, She Shuangbai saw Yu Lie's proficient alchemy skills with her own eyes, and was even more impressed by Yu Lie.

Yu Lie also saw She Shuangbai's alchemy skills for the first time, and fully understood why this person was in charge of the Pao Zhuo Hall in the alchemy room, and the path of alchemy he chose was also Dragon Vein.

There was no other reason. This woman's alchemy skills were really bad, and it would be more practical to just start and cook the medicinal materials. If she were to make alchemy and make medicine, it would be a waste both for the medicinal materials and for her personally.

Twenty or thirty days later, there was a delicate fragrance in the cave on the cliff.

Yu Lie did not go out with She Shuangbai that day, but sat cross-legged alone in the cave.

The fluorite on his head shed a faint light. He closed his eyes and patiently watched the fire in the furnace.

After a while, the rope swayed at the entrance of the cave, and a vigorous figure landed lightly at the entrance of the cave like an eagle returning to its nest, carrying the food it found in its hand.

She Shuangbai walked back and took a look at Yu Lie. Seeing that Yu Lie was just looking at the stove and making no other movements, she walked into the cave in a familiar manner, hung the live fish in her hand on the rock wall, and took it off again. Hang up all the coats on your body.

In front of Yu Lie, she untied her bun, wiped her hands and neck, put on comfortable Taoist robes, and murmured:

"You have been in the cave for three days. You have never left the door or stepped out of the door. You are living like a little daughter-in-law. You can let me stay at home in the cave for a few days at any time, and you can go find food outside..."

In order to ensure that the two of them have sufficient blood and elixirs when taking the transformation, they have given up elixirs for a long time, including bigu pills. They will never waste any pills unless necessary.

When Yu Lie heard the other party's muttering, the old god was still sitting cross-legged in front of the copper stove, and just replied:

"Very good, then you will watch the furnace and make medicine tomorrow, while Pindao goes out to look for food."

Listening to Yu Lie's teasing, She Shuangbai was very familiar with it and didn't care. She stretched her body, gathered her sleeves and robe, walked to the copper stove, and said with bright eyes:

"That's all it takes, isn't it?"

Yu Lie nodded, opened his eyes and looked at the other party, glanced at the other party's weakened figure and loose robe, then closed his eyes again, and just said:

"Go kill the fish. You seem to have caught a spiritual fish today. Call me when you're done. Don't waste it."

"The dog's nose is so sharp!"

She Shuangbai clasped her hands and muttered: "It's very, very, very, Master Yu taught me a lesson."

She turned around and secretly spat: "Yu Bapi."

Yu Lie just hummed in response, not even bothering to open his eyes to look at the other person.

After these days of settling down, their true natures were exposed.

One is lazy and not fastidious, and the other likes to eat, and is also very fastidious. He bathes at least three times a day. Both of them are a bit disgusted with each other.

Fortunately, Yu Lie was in charge of the power of refining medicine and did not tolerate the other party, so he just gained the upper hand.

Not long after, charcoal was lit again in the cave. After the spiritual fish was roasted, the two of them made tooth sacrifices. Suddenly, a stronger medicinal aroma rose in the cave.

Yu Lie stood up suddenly and walked quickly to the copper stove. She Shuangbai was biting the grilled fish, her eyes were bright, and she was staring at Yu Lie's back.

But she was really not confident in her alchemy skills and did not dare to make a judgment. She could only swallow her throat and asked with some apprehension:

"alright?"

Yu Lie flapped the copper stove, opened the lid, secretly put the fire bugs in the stove into his sleeves with his back on his back, and then looked into the copper stove.

Amidst the smoke, his muffled voice sounded in the copper furnace: "Okay."

After receiving this answer, She Shuangbai stood up and walked towards Yu Lie and Tonglu with joy on his face, playing with his sleeves.

When she squeezed through the rest of the queue and looked at the thick layer of bright red ointment in the copper furnace, she couldn't hold back the surprise in her heart:

"Very good, very good!"

This furnace red powder was made by Yu Lie using five kinds of gold and stone such as cinnabar, realgar, alum, Zeng Qing, and Ci Shi. He also picked Ganoderma lucidum and Ganoderma lucidum from the mountains as a primer, and mixed it with the blood of many ferocious beasts and demonic beasts, as well as six-grade terror lizards. blood, a secretly refined ointment.

Its name is "Five Stone Powder", and it is the key medicine for a ninth-grade Taoist boy to be promoted to an eighth-grade Taoist disciple!

The first transformation of an eighth-level Taoist disciple is called "Swallowing Gold and Wearing Jade". In short, the Taoist relies on his powerful organs to eat gold and iron, take jade, and squeeze oil from the stone to maintain health. vitality.

Only the internal organs have such effects, Taoists are qualified to swallow spiritual stones, bite them into pieces and chew them, and actively absorb all the spiritual energy in the spiritual stones, without wasting any bit, to promote cultivation.

The function of Wushi Powder is to process and weaken the five kinds of gold and stone materials, so that the Taoist's internal organs become as familiar with gold and iron as possible, and slowly change until the quality changes to the point where they can swallow gold and wear jade.

The refining of this medicine is not very difficult and can be done by a Taoist boy.

But the key is that the toxicity of the Five Stones Powder refined by different people is often different. How to weaken or neutralize the toxicity of the Five Stones as much as possible is the key.

Originally, with Yu Lie's level of alchemy, although he could refine the Five Stone Powder, the toxicity of the resulting Five Stone Powder could not be guaranteed. It is possible that after the Taoist child took it, his internal organs were tempered, but the toxicity remained too much, making it difficult to remove it. It will greatly shorten the Taoist's lifespan, and he may die suddenly or become paralyzed the next day, failing to break through.

Fortunately, the two of them now have sixth-grade flesh and blood in their hands as medicinal materials. They can use the pure flesh and blood to neutralize the toxicity of the gold and stone in the Five Stone Powder, regardless of the cost, leaving a few breaths for the organs of the person taking it to recover. Even life and death without any side effects.

This is why the two of them were very happy after receiving the flesh and blood of the sixth-grade fear lizard.

Because for ordinary Taoist boys, the better thing is to use the essence and blood of seventh-grade monsters to neutralize the medicinal properties of Five Stone Powder, and the worse thing is to use the blood of eighth-grade ferocious beasts to neutralize it, even if it is the person who refines Five Stone Powder. No matter how good the craftsmanship is, it is definitely not as good as the two who used the flesh and blood of a sixth-grade terror lizard as medicine.

Made from five stones.

Yu Lie stood in front of the copper stove, hesitated for a moment, stretched out his hand, scraped off a small amount with his fingernail, and put it on the tip of his tongue to taste.

Suddenly, a strong smell of blood rose up in his mouth, jolting his spirit, making his eyes light up, and the qi and blood in his body became active.

She Shuangbai saw that there was nothing wrong with Yu Lie's taste and there was no sign of poisoning at all. She was overjoyed and stepped forward, tapping some with her fingernails and sticking out the tip of her red tongue to taste.

As the medicine took effect, She Shuangbai's complexion turned slightly crimson, and the blood flowing through her body was more intense than Yu Lie's.

This made Yu Lie, who was sipping the medicine, feel wary. He quickly took out the condensed cow and goat milk for detoxification and said:

"Is there a problem? Refining is wrong?"

She Shuangbai hesitated and did not take the milk. Instead, she used her fingernails to gouge out a large piece of ointment from the copper stove and put it into her mouth to taste.

She closed her eyes slightly, her face became increasingly crimson, almost bright and hot, and she inadvertently pulled at the skirt of her clothes, breathing hot air from her mouth, as if she had a fever.

This made Yu Lie, who was watching, feel more and more upset in his heart and became less confident.

But She Shuangbai looked at Yu Lie with bright eyes and said happily: "It's no problem, very good, very good!"

She walked quickly around the copper furnace, moving like the wind, and chanted:

"Wu Shi Powder has hot, dry and strong medicinal properties. After taking it, it will make the whole body feel hot and the Qi and blood agitated. It has a vague effect of confusing people's hearts. The medicine is half mixed with poison. But it is in this state of boiling Qi and blood that the Taoist takes Only by eating it can you have the opportunity to condense the 'true energy' from the energy and blood all over your body and enter the eighth level..."

She Shuangbai's alchemy skills are not very high, but she can be regarded as a practitioner of alchemy after all. She knows all kinds of alchemy classics clearly and can recite them more skillfully than Yu Lie.

Yu Lie looked at the other party walking with wind and force, and asked doubtfully: "Really?"

She Shuangbai felt refreshed and answered loudly:

"Exactly. With Brother Yu's alchemy skills and the flesh and blood of a sixth-grade Terror Lizard, is it possible that he can still obtain a five-stone powder that is more toxic than medicinal? Impossible, absolutely impossible!"

She pointed at herself and continued to say excitedly:

"Brother Yu, please don't think that Pindao is going insane right now. Wushi Powder is also known as 'Hanshi Powder'. After taking it, you must get 'Xing Powder', that is, eat cold food, drink warm wine, pour cold water on your body, and take off your clothes to get fever. If it's not Yu, My brother is still here, and a poor Taoist must do the same."

Yu Lie heard this and suddenly thought of this.

He took out the medicine book from his sleeve and looked at it, and found that this was indeed recorded in detail in the book. He felt his body carefully and found that there was nothing wrong with him except for a slight fever, so he completely Relax.

After closing the medicine book, Yu Lie touched the copper stove and said reservedly:

"That's right. Pindao has some talent in refining elixirs after all."