The Monk

Chapter 22 Learning Alchemy

Sixteen years have passed in the cave, and only sixteen days have passed outside the cave. Lin Sen walked around Wuling Garden, checked some jade slips, and came to see Zhang Awei. He happened to see the golden elixir beginning to form, and Zhang Awei played the role of a triangle by himself. Stop, Lin Sen stopped: "Stop, stop, you are going crazy, what kind of bad skills are you practicing? I have something to tell you."

Zhang Ai stopped thinking and the three elixirs in his mind merged into one. He stood up and said, "Uncle Lin, what's the matter?"

"Everything in this cave is good, but there are no weapon refining materials. I looked through the jade slips for weapon refining. The materials for practicing with the scales of the Fushen Snake are many extraordinary. I want to go out to find them. It will take two or three days as soon as possible. Then two or three months." Lin Sen had nothing to say about Zhang's fear.

Zhang Wei disagreed: "Uncle Lin, if you don't have the materials, you won't practice. It's no big deal. I'll just wait until I get the materials and come back to you to practice."

Lin Sen explained: "I can go underground to look for minerals."

Zhang Ping still disagreed: "If there really was ore under the boundless grassland, wouldn't you have found it long ago?"

Lin Sen was more stubborn: "You must have a magic weapon to save your life. The world is dangerous and filled with villains..."

He was interrupted by Zhang Awei: "I don't agree with you going out anyway. If you go out, then I will go out too, and let's talk about revenge for you."

Lin Sen said it simply, but Zhang Wen knew in his heart that finding materials for making weapons is not just about buying rice or groceries. You can just go to the market. Especially precious casting materials are hard to find. Although he can search for minerals underground, who knows what will happen if he leaves the boundless grassland? If Uncle Lin is injured because of this, wouldn't his hundreds of thousands of years of seclusion be in vain?

Hearing what Zhang Wen said, Lin Sen stared at him for a while and smiled softly: "Okay, I will listen to you. I will start teaching you the art of weapon refining and alchemy from tomorrow. If by chance I come across good materials, I can make it myself." There’s no need to run back and forth for refining.”

Zhang Ai bowed to the end: "Thank you, Uncle Lin."

Lin Sen helped him up and said, "We still don't know who wants to thank whom." He took out the snake skin from his waist and gave it back to Zhang Ain.

From that day on, Zhang was afraid that he would have to learn more things like weapon refining and alchemy. This type of spell was actually useless. Practicing the refining technique would definitely affect the normal progress of his practice. Whether you have cultivated to the Dan-Jie stage or the Nascent Soul stage, what you need is the strength of your soul, not how powerful the magic weapon you create is.

However, if you practice these techniques, you will have the opportunity to possess powerful weapons and magical elixirs, which are essential items for immortal cultivators. They can not only defeat the enemy and save your life, but also make it possible to upgrade. With such a good condition, who wouldn’t be tempted by it?

But only if you really start to practice, will you know the true meaning of tasteless. Whether it is refining elixirs or making tools, you need materials. The world is so big, and there are more than tens of millions of various materials? You need to memorize, identify, refine, extract, classify, and memorize various elixirs and tools. When refining, you also need to grasp the time and heat. The time and energy spent is definitely no less than cultivating the soul. And these are based on the refining materials. If there are no refining materials, everything above will be in vain!

Therefore, most immortal cultivators use their natal soul elixir fire to cultivate their natal magic weapon. Firstly, the cultivation effect is no worse than the weapon refining technique. Secondly, it is simple and easy to use. The disadvantage is that they can only cultivate one natal magic weapon. As for elixirs, most people buy them directly because the materials are hard to find.

This situation directly led to a significant decrease in the number of people who practiced the art of weapon making and alchemy. It also led to the priceless market of magic weapons and high-level elixirs, making them extremely hard to come by.

Lin Sen has been alive for too long. Not counting the time in Nitian Cave, he has been in the outside world for nearly a thousand years. In addition, there are many kinds of herbs in Wuling Blessed Land. Therefore, in terms of alchemy alone, he is definitely a rare master in the world. . Correspondingly, the tool making skills are slightly worse.

The time in the Nitian Cave is not considered time at all. Ten or twenty years pass by in a blink of an eye, and only a dozen days have passed since we left the cave. Zhang Weijing stayed in the Nitian Cave for another fifteen years. Lin Sen compiled a collection of herbal medicines and studied all the alchemy recipes, and he could easily refine low-level elixirs. The tool-making skills are worse. Although he knows a lot about the materials and is familiar with many refining methods, he suffers from the lack of materials and cannot experiment.

Lin Sen specialized in refining an alchemy cauldron and a refining furnace. He also recorded all the treasures and earth materials he knew into a book and gave them to Zhang Ain.

The god who originally founded the Nitian Cave left some jade slips, utensils, and elixir refining methods in the cave. Lin Sen sorted them out, made them into jade slips, and gave them to Zhang Ain.

Zhang Ai became more and more familiar with Lin Sen and dared to say anything: "Uncle Lin? Didn't the god leave any magic weapon behind?"

Lin Sen glared at him: "Don't say you don't have it. Even if you have it, I won't let you use it. What if he comes back? If the magic weapon is gone, will you pay for it or should I?"

"How is it possible? I carry all the important magic weapons with me, and the ones I can leave behind are definitely not good things..." At this point, Zhang Ai suddenly remembered something and looked up to look closely at Lin Sen.

Lin Sen felt uncomfortable looking at him and said quickly: "There really is no magic weapon left."

Zhang Awei shook his head and said slowly: "What if one day the god comes back?" Lin Sen said: "What can we do? What happened before is what we are now." After answering Zhang Awei's question, he suddenly understood what Zhang Awei meant. I felt like I was sweating coldly.

For a while, the two of them were silent for a long time. Zhang Ain asked, "What do you want to do in the future?" Lin Sen turned pale, and after thinking for a long time without an answer, he forced a smile and said, "I won't come back."

"What if?" Zhang Ain continued to ask.

No one knows why the man of God left. When he left, the underground cave had no grass on the ground, and no fish or anything else in the water. He shouldn't have thought that Ling Shen could cultivate into an adult. It is absolutely impossible to estimate the effectiveness of the spiritual grass for cultivating the human form, but everyone knows that it is extremely precious. The man of God created the Heaven-defying Cave to cultivate medicine and refine elixirs. What would he do if he knew that Lin Sen was a humanoid spiritual ginseng with a lifespan of more than 700,000 or 800,000 years?

Lin Sen didn't want to think about this problem and stood there in a daze.

Zhang Wen suggested moving, but Lin Sen didn't answer.

Thirty-one years in the Nitian Cave, Zhang Ain, Fu'er and a bunch of other little kids have become familiar with each other. Fu'er is Lingshen, Lu'er is Polygonum multiflorum, Shou'er is Ganoderma lucidum, Xi'er Yuan'er and so on, a total of thirteen These big fat dolls each have a lifespan of nearly 100,000 years. In addition, they usually eat spiritual pills and live in a place with abundant spiritual energy. They have an unimaginable amount of spiritual energy. What should they do?

Lin Sen could control his aura, but these dolls couldn't. If you move away from here, as soon as the dolls appear, they will definitely attract countless jealous people to chase them madly.

The two stood dumbly for a long time, and Lin Sen forced a smile and said, "Why are you thinking about these invisible things? Drinking."

This time the two of them drank alcohol.

After the wine wore off, Lin Sen was still drunk, and Zhang was afraid of entering the Wuling Cave. He was practicing alchemy a few days ago. In order to improve the success rate, he used spiritual energy crazily. He wanted to replenish some in the Five Spirit Pond.

But there was something on my mind today, and when I gave the command to God Tears in my mind, I was still thinking about Lin Sen and the man of God. The command was conveyed, and the five elements of spiritual energy in the Divine Tears accelerated their rotation, absorbing the spiritual energy in the pool.

Zhang was afraid of standing still, thinking wildly, and suddenly felt the familiar sadness again. I have never felt that kind of feeling since the Divine Tears came to my body. Today, I am worried, and my heart is filled with sorrow again, and I am enveloped in sorrow again.

I don’t know how long it took to calm down, but I was surprised, why hasn’t the divine tears stopped absorbing? After it was over this morning, I checked subconsciously and found that the spiritual energy in the Divine Tears was compressing crazily. Aura self-compression? Zhang was afraid that he didn't know what happened.

The spiritual energy inside the Divine Tears was compressed, and the spiritual energy from the outside kept pouring in; then it continued to compress, and continued to pour in. Zhang Ping wanted to see when it would end.

This looks like a month. Zhang was afraid that he had no concept of how much spiritual energy there was. He knew that there was so much spiritual energy in the Divine Tears that it was unimaginable. But this month, the amount of spiritual energy in the Divine Tears had been unimaginable.

Lin Sen also discovered this situation. Although he was curious, he was more worried that something might happen to Zhang, so he stayed with him all the time.