Fairy cage

After receiving the gift from Mr. Fang, Yu Lie immediately wanted to enter a state of seclusion and study the elixir method.

But in the next period of time, things became complicated. The middle-rank Taoist boys who had been given a banquet by Yu Lie in the alchemy room began to invite Yu Lie one by one in turn, asking Yu Lie to be a guest in the other party's mouth.

When Yu Lie first became the leader, he could not avoid such interactions, so he had to socialize to avoid others thinking that he had become arrogant since he got along with the master of the Yaofang Hall.

After half a month of communication.

Yu Lie was in the alchemy room, and it could be said that his appearance was familiar to him in other places. Except for some important places, he can go in and out of various openings without even taking out the sign.

Even the life of the Taoist boys in the poisonous mouth where he was working was much better than usual. Whether it was handing over medicinal materials or asking for help from his brothers and cousins, the other party would look at Yu Lie's thin face and treat him kindly. A bit of face.

The emergence of this situation not only made the poisonous Taoist boys happy, but also made Yu Lie happy as they became more submissive to Yu Lie.

Because after he "befriended" a hall master, Du Kou's situation improved so much. Doesn't it mean that when Du Liang was still there, Du Kou's situation in the alchemy room was poor and he was not recruiting. Want to be seen?

"The poisonous mouth is not popular with others. Even if Du Liang has some connections with this guy, the connection is probably not big. It is far from the level that will make others show favor."

Yu Lie could feel completely relieved and no longer had to worry about getting involved with the powerful person behind Du Liang.

This day.

Yu Lie stood in front of Dukou's door, smiling warmly and saying: "Friend Lu, I really bothered you today and sent someone here again. You really helped me Dukou a lot! I will definitely reward you well when you have some time." Give it a try."

Opposite him was a young Taoist boy, probably about the same age as Yu Lie. He was the Taoist boy who was responsible for guiding Yu Lie when he first entered the alchemy room - Lu Lu.

The reason why this person came to Dukou was because he brought a group of nearly ten Taoist boys and replenished him to Dukou through the distribution of the alchemy room.

There were also smiles on people’s faces on the roadside, and they immediately said good things:

"What's the matter? Fellow Daoist Yu is too polite. Since you took office, not to mention the entire alchemy room, at least half of the alchemy room has known that the poisonous mouth has made a powerful move. In less than half a month, the poisonous mouth has been punished. He is very organized, his work is superb, and there is no delay in handing over tasks. He is obviously a poisonous person, but the people under his command seem to be living a life like a prescription, nourishing! "

The man on the roadside returned the gift: "Now I am sending someone to you. I don't have to give it to you. Someone is already willing to spend money to come. I have to establish a good relationship with you to prevent you from not accepting it."

Yu Lie looked surprised: "Hey! Really?"

The people in the sedan chair were carrying the people, and the two of them stood in front of the entrance. After continuing to compliment each other for a few words, they said goodbye.

After seeing off this guest, Yu Lie stood in front of Dukou's door. After appraising the arrangements for the past few days, he breathed a sigh of relief:

"This person should be the last one. I have to go out to receive him, so I can't be considered a neglectful person."

He guessed, looking at the disappearing figure of the road boy with strange eyes.

Over the past few months, Yu Lie's cultivation has improved and he has been promoted to the rank of middle-level Taoist boy. The roadside boy who was the lower-level Taoist boy with him that day was also unassuming. He put on a three-striped Taoist robe, matching With a mid-level waist card, someone can accompany you wherever you go.

Even Yu Lie looked at the other person's behavior and realized that he might have been promoted before him, so he was considered a wonderful person.

“In this huge Blackwater Town, I’m not the only one whose cultivation will improve!”

Yu Lie thought about it in his heart, and with his mind settled, he immediately turned around and walked into the poisonous mouth.

On the way, he called Lao Hutou and told him that he needed to retreat for at least half a month, so that he could make up his own mind first. If you can't get it, just play it safe first and wait until he comes out of seclusion before making a decision.

Having become a middle-ranking Taoist boy and a top poisoner, Yu Lie is now practicing in seclusion. He no longer has to find excuses or bother to make excuses, he can just say it.

Old Hutou had 10,000 supports for Yu Lie's seclusion practice. He immediately grinned and nodded: "Don't worry, boss, I'll leave the chores to the servants!"

After handing over to Lao Hutou, Yu Lie completely put aside his distracting thoughts and stepped into Dukou's quiet room.

inside the house.

He triggered the switch and blocked the thick stone door. His ears suddenly became quiet, and there was no more noise.

Yu Lie turned around and looked at the dark jade altar in the center of the quiet room, with a look of satisfaction in his eyes.

This object is exactly the altar he arranged. It is made of Chinese ink jade as the base, cut and stacked. It is half an arm thick and shaped like a Bagua style. It is outlined with exquisite runes and is engraved with Taoist classics of purity of heart and tranquility. ——"Qingjing Sutra", every word is pearl.

There are also banners, bells, porcelain vases, flowers, fragrant fruits and other objects placed on the altar. Everywhere is out of order. The whole body looks exquisite and beautiful, full of Taoist spirit.

Yu Li walked to the altar, took off his shoes and socks, washed his feet and washed his hands, then stepped on it barefoot.

The jade altar was dark in color, like a deep pool, with a cold surface. A coolness seemed to enter Yu Lie's body and mind through his feet, making him feel much calmer.

Yu Lie sat cross-legged on the gold and silver futon in the center of the altar, emptying his mind, and then recalled the prescription of "Fish Belly Peizhu Strong Blood Pills".

Words and pictures immediately popped into his mind, clear and distinct.

In the past half month, Yu Lie was socializing during the day, but he was not too wasted at night. He mostly took the time to ponder the elixir recipe and decorate the altar with his own hands.

Now, not only has the altar been successfully arranged, but he also knows the five kinds of elixirs in his hand, and he only needs to practice alchemy!

After a moment of excitement, Yu Lie sat cross-legged and immediately took out the corresponding materials for refining the medicine from the belly of the blood clam. He also took out the bronze wine cup and placed it aside for the convenience of handling the medicine at any time.

First, two squares of fine black snake fish eggs were placed on the altar. One of them was dark in color, the grains were like black beans, and the mucus from the fish belly still remained on the surface.

The other side is smaller in shape, and the grains are like black sesame seeds, but crystal clear and showing a jade-like luster. At first glance, it is more spiritual than the fish eggs on the first side.

These two fish eggs were what Yu Lie wanted to use as a comparison. The former was not soaked in the bronze wine cup, while the latter was soaked in the bronze wine cup, and the spiritual energy was purified.

Fish Belly Peizhu Qianxue Pill is a pill that imitates parasitic poisonous insects. Although there is no specific reason mentioned in the elixir recipe, there must be a reason why fish eggs are used as the elixir embryo instead of other places.

Yu Lie guessed that it was probably because the fish eggs were alive. Although they were not fertilized, they were not purely dead.

However, Yu Lie's bronze wine cup can only purify dead objects and cannot swallow living objects. He doesn't know whether the vigor in the fish eggs will be destroyed after the purification of the wine cup, so he has to conduct experiments separately!

Fortunately, most of the other medicinal materials besides fish eggs don’t require such trouble.

In the past few days, he had already prepared several medicinal materials.

And because Yu Lie was refining the blood-strengthening pills only for his own use. The more refined the medicinal materials, the greater the success rate and efficacy of refining the medicine, so he refined them all.

A special booklet was also used, titled "Fish Belly Peizhu Strong Blood Pills", which recorded the best purification time of various medicinal materials in secret words, which also facilitated the recording of other experiences and lessons.

Yu Lie didn't believe that he would succeed in making alchemy for the first time. Even if he had an introductory analysis of alchemy as a basis, it would still be impossible.

Fortunately, Yu Lie also has a little extra confidence in his heart. In addition to the external conditions such as bronze wine glasses, he has Su Hui. When it comes to alchemy, his ideas are not to mention how sophisticated they are, but compared to most Taoist boys. , he has his own set of methods to study and ponder.

Yu Lie was confident that as long as the recipe for the elixir was correct and he was given a few more qualified medicinal materials, he would be able to reproduce the elixir.

next moment.

Yu Lie bowed slightly and began the formal alchemy practice.

However, unlike many Taoist boys, Yu Lie's first step was to take out a delicate medicine scale from the belly of the blood clam and adjust it carefully. It is different from the small medicine scale that is weighed by hand. Instead, the two ends can be tilted up. It is placed on the table and weighed with weights.

Although the shape of this medicine scale, carved with an insect or a snake, was quite strange in Yu Lie's eyes, he still secretly called it a "balance" in his heart.

This thing was not given by Mr. Fang, but Yu Lie went to the Institute of Instruments specifically to look for a scale and weighing tool. He spent 1,300 yuan to buy it back, which was worth two black snake fish.

Fortunately, its effect also surprised Yu Lie. It can even weigh the weight of a strand of hair!

In addition to the medicine scale, Yu Lie also took out a set of precision water bowls. These were exquisitely made by the Warehouse. The sizes were divided into equal proportions. The price was a bit cheaper, but it was not comparable to ordinary porcelain pottery.

Taking out the medicine bowl for grinding, Yu Lie held his breath, put the medicinal materials in the medicine bowl strictly according to the proportions on the prescription, and ground them carefully.

During the grinding process, he pricked his fingertips from time to time and dripped his own blood into it for mixing.

It took Yu Lie three or four hours to prepare just the first batch of medicinal ingredients. Some of the medicinal ingredients were wasted on the spot due to unfamiliarity with the movements and could only be dissolved into the wine glass.

Of course, Yu Lie spent most of the three or four hours on recording and comparison.

After the ointment was prepared, Yu Lie made a secret, put the specially prepared ointment into the water bowl of black snake eggs, and used a specific technique to stir-fry and mix it using his own body temperature.

After another careful preparation, he finally finished frying the fish eggs, and there was nothing wrong with them just from the appearance.

Next, Yu Lie was excited, jumped off the altar, and took out a black snake fish from a wooden box in the quiet room.

He weighed the fish, removed the sawdust from the fish, cleaned it, and neatly placed it in the center of the altar.

There was no need to use a knife, Yu Lie hooked his fingers, and his fingertips were like blades, gently swiping across the belly of the fish, exposing the internal organs, and took out the freshly prepared fish eggs from the side and placed them into the belly of the black snake fish. .

This step may be the most difficult for the other Taoists, but for Yu Lie, it is easy to do.

After placing the fish eggs into the abdomen of the black snake fish, Yu Lie did not put them back into the wooden box. Instead, he tied the fish's head and gills with a piece of straw and hooked them with the fish's tail to form a bow.

This is called the "fish bow technique", which can force open the fish's gills, so that even if it is out of the river, it can still survive for a long time, even longer than in a bucket, which makes it easier for Yu Lie to apply ointment next. .

He hung the bowed fish on a corner of the edge of the altar, on a flagpole flag. He picked up a dense salt in his hand and applied it evenly on the fish.

After completing this, the general process of refining the medicine is considered completed.

The next "temperature" and "progress" depend on Yu Lie's vision and experience. If the fish eggs are placed for too short a time, the blood-strengthening pills will not be refined, and if they are placed for too long, the blood-strengthening pills may not be made. The swelling is so severe that not even a single pill can be taken.

Only by choosing the right time can we refine the blood-strengthening pill to the greatest extent possible.

And the more accurate the timing, the more blood-strengthening pills a black snake fish can cultivate.

This specific time is related to the temperature, humidity, the size and type of fish, and even the blood and water mixed in by the Taoist, etc., and it is by no means easy to grasp.

Therefore, after Yu Lie hung up a fish, he sat cross-legged in the center of the altar, biting a charcoal pen, and racked his brains to think about the factors that could affect the formation of elixirs...

He kept going up and down, writing down all the factors, big and small, in the book, and noted the situation at this moment, such as the temperature of the quiet room, the size of the fish shape, the amount of dense salt, the amount of fish eggs, etc.

Yu Lie's idea is that as long as there is a success, he will use the various conditions of that time as a template, eliminate them one by one, and strictly control the size factors to facilitate re-engraving again.

Although there are no specific instructions on the elixir prescription, Yu Lie privately thought that he could figure out the rules for elixir formation and the optimal environment for elixir formation.

Yu Lie raised his head and decided in his heart: "This idea should be correct."

The next moment, he took out a second live fish.

This fish is no longer a black snake fish, but a flat-bodied bream called the small cattail bream. It is also a spiritual fish, but it is not as common as the black snake fish near Blackwater Town.

Fish eggs were cooked one after another, and live fish were hung around the altar one after another.

But the next day.

Yu Lie frowned, unfolded his medicine refining notes, and recorded his lessons:

"The first fish is a black snake fish. The bow fish lasts for twelve hours and three quarters and one hundred and twenty breaths. The skin of the fish is as dry as tree bark. I cut the belly to get the medicine, but no pills were found. After a closer look at the reason for the failure, the fish eggs turned blue, which is suspected. There are impurities and poisons mixed in.”

"The second tail is a small cattail bream, a bowfish that lasts twelve hours and a quarter and three hundred breaths. The scales are white, and no pills are found when the medicine is taken after a dissection. The eggs are white, and it is suspected that salt seeps through the incision and damages the eggs."

After summing up the lessons, Yu Lie started refining medicine again.

On the third day, holding a charcoal pencil, he continued to write:

"The third tail, the black snake fish, has not been completed. The eggs have not changed. It is extremely suspected that the eggs cannot be soaked in wine glasses."

"The fourth and fifth tails are all fat fish. Make sure the fish eggs cannot be soaked in the wine glass."

On the fourth day, additional content was added to the notes:

"The sixth tail, the seventh tail..."

the eleventh day:

"At the end of the eighteenth day, the temperature changed drastically on this day, and the mercury column increased by five and a half quarters. I performed a laparotomy to get the medicine, and found a blood-strengthening pill, bright red in color!"

"That same day, I reexamined it and found a blood-strengthening pill, which was red in color! Great!

"Take the medicine and swallow it. It tastes bitter, and the qi and blood are turbulent. It cannot be used. Dissolve it into a wine glass. Take the medicine mixed with water. It tastes fishy, ​​and the qi and blood are slightly swollen. It is not as good as the prescription says."

Another careful refining, on the seventeenth day:

"The mercury column is twenty-one and a half minutes high, and the humidity is optimal. After taking the medicine, it tastes astringent and sweet. As the prescription says, the qi and blood surge like waves!!"

On this day, Yu Lie was slightly happy.

The nineteenth day.

In the quiet room that day, Yu Lie's hair was growing rapidly and was already long. His hair was disheveled and his hands were full of fishy smell.

Yu Lie held the pills he had just taken out from the belly of a black snake fish and wrote down in detail:

"The twenty-eighth tail, black snake fish, was reproduced successfully. I got three and a half pills. They are all red in color and taste good...

Complete medicine refining! "

After finishing writing, the charcoal pen fell down, Yu Lie's eyes were in a trance, his face was startled, and then he showed joy!

Four thousand five hundred words.