I run a cram school in the realm of self-cultivation

Zhang Tanyuan didn't know that the "Xiao Fang" fellow daoist next to Ji Zhao was about to recognize his relatives.

He poured the wine into Ji Zhao's cup, but took a sip of the hot tea himself. When the warm tea swallowed into his stomach, Zhang Tanyuan felt that the smell of alcohol all over his body was diluted. few.

He breathed a sigh of relief, looked out through the window, and saw the attendants of the Wang family surrounded Wang Youshan's body from the inside out. From their current angle, they could only see the anger of the head of the Wang family. look.

Zhang Tanyuan pinched a formula to block the sight of prying eyes.He raised his eyes slightly, and asked Ji Zhao: "When does Mr. Ji plan to make a move to turn this Wang family into the Ji family?"

"No hurry." Ji Zhao tapped the table lightly with his fingers, his eyes were full of confidence, "The Wang family has lost Wang Youshan's backer, so they won't be able to stay in Jiuxiao City for long."

His voice was light and distant, but there was a sense of determination in his words.Fang He even felt that every word he said now would become a reality.

In fact, within half a month or so, Ji Zhao's words became reality.

Almost in the blink of an eye, the name of the Wang family completely disappeared in Jiuxiao City and became history.

Many properties of the Wang family changed their sales and purchases, but Ji Zhao was well prepared and bought several of the most valuable lots as soon as he made a move.Even the well-known Wang's auction house has become the property of the Ji family.

Fang He followed Ji Zhao, looked up and saw that the plaque of Wang's Auction House was removed and replaced with a large "Ji" character.Beside Ji, there is also the symbol of Yunxi—a simple cloud drawn with one stroke.

The style of the entire plaque is different from that of the Wang family. It looks dignified and domineering, but also has a strong personal style.

Sitting in front of Ji's Auction House, Ji Zhao turned his head slightly, and said to Cheng Luhe, "Xiao Cheng, you will take over this auction house from now on."

After saying this, Ji Zhao coughed softly twice. His complexion was paler due to his exhaustion and calculations in the past few days. He just fixed his eyes on Cheng Luhe, watching his face change from time to time. From wonder to disbelief to great joy.

Cheng Luhe quickly bowed to Ji Zhao and said, "Thank you for your trust, young master. I will definitely go all out and work hard for young master."

Ji Zhao put his hand on Cheng Luhe's body like this, and patted him on the shoulder: "I believe in you, and you will definitely give me a satisfactory explanation. Jingui, take the two pills I have refined recently Give the medicine to Xiao Cheng."

Jingui was taken aback for a moment, and then responded quickly.He took out two bottles of turquoise pills from his storage bracelet and handed them to Cheng Luhe.

Cheng Luhe took it subconsciously, opened it without haste, and looked at Ji Zhao immediately.Ji Zhao lifted his chin, and said softly, "If you want to be the manager of the auction house, you must have good eyesight. Tell me, what price is more suitable for my two bottles of medicine?"

Cheng Luhe didn't speak, he wiped his palm nervously, and opened the pill bottle in front of Ji Zhao.As soon as the pill bottle was opened, there was a cloud of pills rising into the sky, which could faintly condense into clouds.Next to the clouds and mists, five halos formed a rainbow bridge, and they were built together to form a monstrous array.

The vision formed by this elixir was seen by all the people around, their eyes were full of surprise, but when their eyes fell on Ji Zhao, there was a little more clarity in their brows and eyes.

"It turns out that this auction house was bought by Mr. Yunxi, no wonder."

"Could it be that Mr. Yunxi is going to sell pills in his own auction house!"

"My God, that's big news. I need to tell my family quickly."

"I am the same, I must prepare my sect and try my best to raise spirit crystals. It is a great blessing to be able to buy one of Master Yunxi's elixir!"

"It's just that the pills of Mr. Yunxi are never auctioned in the auction house?"

The surrounding noises gradually sounded, and Cheng Luhe immediately reacted. Instead of sealing the pill bottle, he tried his best to show the vision of the pill in front of everyone.When more and more people gathered around him, he said loudly:

"Seven days later, Master Yunxi's elixir will be auctioned at Ji's Auction House as the finale item. At that time, I hope that fellow daoists will come to Ji's Auction House for the reward."

His voice was sonorous and powerful, and even carried spiritual power floating far away.Almost half of the people in Jiuxiao City heard Cheng Luhe's words, and everyone started to commotion. They quickly took out their communication talismans to contact their families and sects.

Seeing the reactions around him, Cheng Luhe looked away in satisfaction.He sealed the mouth of the pill bottle again, lowered his eyes slightly, and landed on Ji Zhao, with a little respect on his face:

"Fortunately, I did not disgrace my life. There has never been an upper limit for the elixir of the young master, and the one with the highest price has always been the one to get it."

"The one with the highest price wins, well said." Ji Zhao nodded, he stood up from his seat, his eyes fell on Cheng Luhe, and said, "In this case, I will wait for the auction in seven days. , I hope that the scene at that time will not let me down."

After saying this, Ji Zhao turned around and walked towards the house.Jingui put away Ji Zhao's chair, and followed Ji Zhao's pace with Fang He.When leaving, Fang He turned around and glanced at the auction house, and had to admire Cheng Luhe's excellent chess moves.

These examiners, until now, don't know what the intermediate assessment is about.But the only thing that is certain is that it is difficult to contact the outside world with Ji Zhao.

At least, Cheng Luhe thinks so.

Ji Zhao's mind is too sensitive and delicate, if something is wrong, he will be noticed immediately.And in a short time, you won't be aware of his thoughts.This point can be seen from what happened to "Xiao Fang".

Letting a Nascent Soul fight with a person who is ranked eighth on the Tianjiao list, who would be as crazy as Ji Zhao?

Moreover, by Ji Zhao's side, Cheng Luhe's access to information was too narrow.As a drug boy, he couldn't leave the other party's side and get news alone.It is precisely because of this that he cannot clearly judge whether the other middle-level talents have discovered the task of this assessment.

He has been delayed for about half a month or so, and he really can't delay any longer.

And Ji's auction house is now his reliance.He can use this as a platform to contact monks from all over the world and get some news from them.

Cheng Luhe's eyes were dimmed, and his eyes fell on the plaque of Ji's Auction House, with a thoughtful expression flashing in his expression.The reason why he was able to know Ji Zhao's plan was entirely because he already knew what kind of time they were in now.In the same way, the examiners who participated in the assessment with him also knew the history after that.

He had to hurry up and get more news.

Cheng Luhe thought, clenched the pill in his hand, and walked towards the inside of Ji's Auction House.His plan was naturally noticed by Fang He.

If Fang He hadn't seen Ji Zhao's method of refining medicine, he would definitely find an excuse to stay away from Ji Zhao just like Cheng Luhe.But not now.

He hasn't succeeded in stealing from Ji Zhao yet, how could he leave.Compared with Cheng Lu and their care about the ranking of the Tianjiao list, Fang He has an indifferent mentality.

For Fang He, this kind of assessment is like the fourth and sixth level exams on earth. If he fails to pass the exam once, he will have a second chance.But staying next to Ji Zhao, there is only one chance to secretly learn his medicine refining techniques.

It's like the college entrance examination, you have to pay close attention to it and memorize the knowledge points.This is the key.What's more, beside Ji Zhao, there is a Jingui.Jingui's ideas on kendo are different from Fang He's, but they can also learn from each other and learn from each other.

Fang He followed Ji Zhao and watched him return to the alchemy room.He hesitated for a while, but finally chose not to go in.But when Ji Zhao walked into the alchemy room, he paused, turned his head and said to Fang He:

"Xiao Fang, come here and give me a hand."

"Oh." Fang He happily responded, and ran into Ji Zhao's alchemy room.

As soon as he stepped into the alchemy room, Ji Zhao walked to the medicine cabinet, and said to Fang He while selecting the medicinal materials: "I saw that you liked to drill in my alchemy room before, why did you suddenly like refining medicine?"

Fang He lowered his eyes, held the tray in his hand, and watched Ji Zhao put the medicinal materials on the tray in front of him one by one, and replied in a low voice: "I just think it's amazing, and I want to learn it."

He said it succinctly, without writing any reason.This made it easier for Ji Zhao to believe.His brows were gentle, his eyes fell on Fang He, he looked up and down and said: "In this case, let's see how high your affinity is with medicinal materials?"

Hearing the word affinity, Fang He was slightly stunned, and said, "What affinity?"

Ji Zhao: "Affinity to a certain extent represents the talent of a pharmacist. The higher the affinity, the more impurities are extracted from the medicinal materials, and the remaining medicinal power is more pure. The medicinal power is purer, what do you think? Will there be any pills that are not well refined?"

As he spoke, Ji Zhao pushed the tray into Fang He's arms, and said in a low voice, "Go, concentrate your energy, and purify these herbs." When he said this, Ji Zhao raised his eyes slightly, and his eyes fell on Fang He He took a good look at the body of the crane:

"Is your body almost recovered?"

Fang He responded lightly. After resting for half a month, his physical condition has almost recovered. In addition, he was able to take out that spirit-breaking pill from time to time and lick it. He felt his own strength. The cultivation base is not far from the breakthrough.He responded softly, and briefly replied to Ji Zhao, then took the tray and came to the front of the alchemy furnace.

Ji Zhao waved his hand lightly, and a bunch of light blue flames sprang out from under the alchemy furnace.Although the flame is a flame, the temperature around the entrance iu's face dropped a lot as soon as it came up.Fortunately, Fang He's sword is extremely cold and can fully withstand such a temperature.

Fang He rubbed his hands slightly, picked up a medicinal plant next to it, dragged it with spiritual power, and suspended it above the alchemy furnace.

This alchemy furnace is a good alchemy furnace, which can not only prevent the engulfment of the flames, but also transmit the temperature of the flames well.It was burning on it, and the liquid medicine dripped slowly one by one.The strong scent of medicine floated in the air, and finally dissipated bit by bit.

Fang He held his breath and watched patiently as the elixir melted little by little, until it finally became a puddle of liquid medicine.The most critical moment came when the liquid medicine was about to condense together.

Fang He slowly closed his eyes, his spiritual consciousness slowly sank into the liquid medicine.In the inner layer of the liquid medicine, there are many calm black spots.Fang He quickly pushed these black spots out with his spiritual sense.He is very proficient in this process, and it becomes more and more handy.

He transported the purified medicinal liquid from the alchemy furnace, put it aside, and continued to purify the next medicinal herb.After about half an hour like this, four or five medicinal herbs were purified.He took the tray, came to Ji Zhao's side, and said in a low voice:

"Young master, I have refined the medicinal materials."

Ji Zhao opened his eyes, and his eyes lightly fell on the five pools of medicinal liquid. A flash of surprise flashed in his eyes: "The purification degree of these medicinal materials is very good, the best among the best. It seems that you are very good at refining medicine. And talent. In the future, if you are interested, just stay by my side when I am refining medicine."

"If the level is really good, if you want to develop in this area in the future, it is not impossible for me to accept you as an apprentice."

Ji Zhao hesitated for a moment, but still said the second half of the sentence.If the original "Xiao Fang" heard Ji Zhao's words, he would definitely be ecstatic.After all, Ji Zhao's servant and Yun Xi's disciple, these two identities still have a distinction.

However, it happened that Fang He was standing in front of Ji Zhao at this moment.It would be good if he confiscated Ji Zhao as his apprentice, but Ji Zhao still wants to become his master, that's impossible!

Therefore, Fang He seemed to be very sincere and said: "Thank you for your kindness, young master. I will definitely study hard and master the art of refining medicine, young master."

Learn, must learn!

Ji Zhao responded softly, and said slowly: "In this case, first purify the medicinal material you just purified three times. Now, there are still many impurities in the medicinal material you showed me. I want to be my apprentice , let me clean up the medicinal materials first."

Fang He glanced at the liquid medicine in his hand, then returned to the pill furnace and sat down.Put the liquid medicine back inside and start to check carefully.

The inspection this time was more detailed than before. Soon, he found the impurities hidden deep in the liquid medicine. These impurities were different from the impurities just now. They seemed to be buried in the liquid medicine and completely fused with the liquid medicine. , It will definitely take a lot of effort to separate.

It took about two hours before Fang He sweated profusely to clean up all the impurities in one of the liquid medicines. After putting the pool of liquid medicine on the tray with great effort, Fang He's upper body was about to fall back. Lean back and take a good rest.

This is really hard.

Just one in-depth purification cost all his current spiritual knowledge, and he could feel the exhaustion of his spiritual knowledge, as if in the next second, he would completely lose consciousness.Fang He originally planned to take it easy, but at this moment, Ji Zhao's voice rang in his ears:

"Go on for me!"

Although these words were extremely gentle, Fang He's whole body trembled. He immediately straightened up and continued to refine the next pool of spiritual knowledge. This time the refining was even more difficult than the previous one.Fang He gritted his teeth and exerted all his strength, but he couldn't completely push out the impurities in the pool of liquid medicine.

The exhaustion of his spiritual knowledge made Fang He need to rest for a while to recover if he moved an inch of impurities.Fortunately, with such regular purification, Fang He felt his originally chaotic mind slowly regain clarity.He could even feel that behind the exhausted spiritual knowledge, new spiritual knowledge gushed out.

His spiritual consciousness grew a little bit in the process of constantly passing and resting.This completely lifted Fang He's spirits. He sat up straight and continued to practice.This time he intentionally shortened his rest time a lot, and soon, he felt the resistance of his spiritual consciousness again.

Fang He gritted his teeth, held his patience and did not give up.Sure enough, after about three or four hours, his spiritual consciousness became stronger again.

This progress was very small and slow, but Fang He saw the rewards.He kept purifying and condensing these liquid medicines repeatedly, coming and going, I don't know how many times, and finally succeeded in attracting Ji Zhao's attention.

When his eyes fell on these puddles of liquid medicine, a flash of surprise flashed in his eyes.You know, Ji Zhao has lived for so many years and has seen many alchemists, this is the first time he has shown such a surprised expression.

This is simply incredible!

Ji Zhao couldn't help stretching out his spiritual sense, and stroked the liquid medicine on the tray bit by bit.He could clearly perceive how pure the liquid medicine was, which was almost the same as the liquid medicine he had condensed.What shocked him the most was that these liquid medicines were repeatedly refined.

One must know that the three purifications arranged by Ji Zhao for Fang He are already very strict conditions.Even those well-known alchemist masters may not be able to achieve this step.The exhaustion and lack of spiritual knowledge will make alchemists full of anxiety, they dare not do this step at all, basically just try it and stop.

Few, like Fang He, constantly tempered and bred new spiritual knowledge from adversity.

Seeing this scene, a deep thought flashed in Ji Zhao's eyes, he didn't disturb him, just sat beside Fang He, watching him continue to refine.

After Fang He came back to his senses, he discovered Ji Zhao's existence.Subconsciously startled in his heart, he lowered his eyes, put the tray in his hand in front of Ji Zhao, and said in a low voice: "My lord, I have purified the medicinal materials three times according to your request."

"It's more than three times." Ji Zhao said slowly. He put the tray in his hand under his eyes. After examining it carefully, he raised his eyebrows and said, "Your talent is beyond my expectation. The more pure you are, the more talented you are." This is an equal relationship, so although the process of purifying the liquid medicine is a preparatory step for refining medicine, it is extremely important." After realizing Fang He's talent After that, Ji Zhao looked at Fang He as an equal, so there was a little more respect in his words.

"You are already familiar with the purification process, so let's refine medicine." As he said, Ji Zhao put Fang He's tray aside, took his own tray, and placed it in front of him. Said, "Attention, watch my technique carefully."

Ji Zhao took the tray in front of him, and the tray on top of him was a whole plant of medicinal herbs that had not been purified at all.His speed was very fast, without even the slightest pause, he melted several medicinal herbs into a liquid medicine, and after the liquid medicine turned into a pool of liquid, the impurities inside were being manipulated by Ji Zhao's spiritual sense and quickly separated from the middle open.

The quality of his purification is the same as Fang He's, but the speed is more than twice as fast as Fang He's.Fang He felt dazzled as he watched the rapid changes in his technique.Fortunately, after refining a few new pills, Ji Zhao would stop and explain to Fang He.

Fang He quickly understood the steps of refining medicine. Seeing that Fang He had almost understood it, Ji Zhao asked Fang He to go out and find a room in the courtyard as a place for him to refine medicine.

The room Fang He chose was some distance away from Ji Zhao’s alchemy room. He couldn’t wait to go in, locked the door, and then took out an alchemy furnace and a few elixir plants he had bought from his storage ring, and followed Ji Zhao’s instructions. In the same way, the medicinal materials are first purified.

The process of purifying medicinal materials was still very slow, although it was much faster than the first time, but compared to Ji Zhao's speed, he was much slower.But even so, Fang He was already extremely satisfied.He separated these pure medicinal liquids one by one, raised the temperature in the pill furnace, and slowly brought them together as Ji Zhao said, using his spiritual sense.

With a "bang", the alchemy furnace jumped up twice, and a puff of black smoke came out from above.Obviously, Fang He's fusion failed.But he was not discouraged at all and continued to merge.

After about two or three times of black smoke, Fang He felt the point where they all merged.He gritted his teeth and watched the two puddles of pills slowly merge together, eventually turning into a brown medicinal solution.Before the liquid medicine had cooled completely, Fang He quickly added another pool of liquid medicine.

The medicine liquid and the medicine liquid are repeatedly fused and alternated, and finally burned by fire to form a round medicine pill.At the moment when the pill was formed, a surprise flashed in Fang He's eyes, but even so, he still did not relax.

Because, he clearly remembered that once his elixir was refined to the last moment...

With a "boom", a huge roar sounded in the Ji mansion, and all the servants were startled by the huge noise, and they were taken aback.Even Ji Zhao put down the medicinal materials in his hands immediately, and hurried towards the pharmacy where Fang He was.

In the cloud of soot, he saw Fang He sitting on the ground in a state of embarrassment, everything around him seemed in a mess.The pill furnace turned gray and black, and fell to the side. The surrounding tables and chairs were already disfigured due to the violent explosion.In the center of the room, Fang He was sitting there with an expression of disbelief.

Ji Zhao sighed lightly, walked over, patted Fang He's shoulder reassuringly and said, "It doesn't matter, isn't it just a failure, but all alchemists have failed before."

"Even I failed three times in refining medicine for the first time." It's just that Fang He didn't make such a big commotion.

Ji Zhao didn't say the latter words.When he said this, there was still confidence in his eyebrows and eyes.After all, there are very few people who succeed in refining medicine after only failing three times for the first time.Strictly speaking, Ji Zhao might be the only one.

Therefore, Ji Zhao was particularly proud of his talent in refining medicine.

After a few words of comfort from Ji Zhao, Fang He finally came back to his senses, his eyes slightly lifted up, fell on Ji Zhao's face, and murmured: "No, I just didn't think it through."

Ji Zhao asked curiously, "What did you not figure out?"

Fang He: "Why, I obviously succeeded in refining it, but it still exploded?"

Ji Zhao: ...

"What?" Ji Zhao felt deaf, what did he hear just now?

Fang He looked at him innocently, and after repeating what he just said, he took out the elixir he had just refined.

A elixir with two halos appeared in front of Ji Zhao, which made Ji Zhao stunned.It never occurred to him that Fang He could refine alchemy in this way, and he would succeed in refining it once.

However, what made him even more distressed was still behind. Ji Zhao only heard Fang He say slowly:

"And, young master, I found that there seems to be some problems with your refining method. I improved it, and the success rate of refining medicine seems to have increased a lot."

Ji Zhaoqing snorted, and his eyes fell on Fang He, waiting for his next words, but Fang He blinked and looked at him without blinking, as if he was waiting for something.

Ji Zhao always felt that those eyes looked malicious.