Our cultivator in the village

Chapter 25 Enlightenment of Alchemy
After listening to the two narrations by Jinghui and Jingru, Tianxin Laodao watched Weijiang for a while, and finally said: "Tomorrow morning, the alchemy hall will be opened, and some disciples will practice alchemy. Come and have a look first."

Wei Jiang rested for one night, and followed Jinghui to Dantang early in the morning.

The alchemy hall of Tianxin Peak is actually a half cave called Qingxi Cave in Tianxin Peak.This cave is huge, with a few old cypress trees covering the sky and sun at the entrance of the cave, and a small stream winds around the cave, forming a clear deep pool not far away.After the entrance of this cave was leveled and repaired by the disciples of Tianxin Peak, hundreds of people taught scriptures here, and the rituals of fasting and offering sacrifices were completely sufficient.

Near the cave, there are several huge cauldrons, which are only slightly smaller than the ones Weijiang saw that day.

Wei Jiang understands why this is the alchemy hall of Tianxin Peak.

Damn, because alchemy is so smelly, he originally thought that alchemy was very fragrant.Isn't alchemy similar to fried beans?He had eaten stir-fried soybeans before, a few handfuls of soybeans were stir-fried with sugar and salt, the whole room was full of aroma, and it tasted delicious.

But here, there is a burnt smell everywhere.If you practice alchemy in the house, you will be stink to death.

In Wei Jiang's view, the alchemist should be like the Taishang Laojun in the play, wearing a purple double-breasted sleeveless sun, moon, stars, and celestial fairy cave clothes, holding a Taiyi whisk made of the horsetail of a white horse raised by the Heavenly Court Imperial Horse Prison , facing a tall alchemy furnace made of colored glaze, shaking the feather fan unhurriedly, and there are two other children serving carefully, one beating his back and the other rubbing his shoulders, this is what an alchemist should look like!
Seeing it now, Wei Jiang was taken aback. The scene was full of pots and pans, clanging and clanging.A group of disciples practiced alchemy all night, their eyes were red, and they were waiting for the master to come today.

A small Taoist boy was smoky, his face was black like a stove king, and he was holding a fan to a cauldron furnace for a while. At this moment, a foul smell came out from the alchemy furnace. It first smelled like rotten eggs, and then it smelled like The burnt smell of stinky socks, and a bit of weasel or fox smell.The disciple couldn't stand the fumes, coughed, and was about to fetch water from the nearby pool, but in a panic, he kicked down a medicine box next to the alchemy stove, mercury beads rolled all over the ground, and cinnabar was also spilled on the ground.

The other Xiaodao boy remained motionless, sitting beside the alchemy stove in a daze. It turned out that the operation was as fierce as a tiger, and the alchemy stove exploded at some point, and the cinnabar was scattered all over the ground. It seems that today it is impossible to do business.

Wei Jiang laughed out loud, and even said it was funny.

Jinghui looked embarrassed, and said to Wei Jiang: "Master is here, you have to restrain yourself."

Jinghui looked at the time, and it was time to turn on the furnace, so she stepped forward and said, "Master, these are all disciples who have just entered the inner courtyard, and they have been learning alchemy for several months. I have made the Qi Gathering Pill for three hours, please come forward and taste it, Master."

Elder Tianxin saw the appearance and knew what the result would be, so he waved his hand and said, "That's it, let's have a look first."

Elder Tianxin first lifted the top cover of a middle-aged disciple's alchemy furnace, only to see that the alchemy furnace was like a pile of freshly pulled sheep dung, soft and smelly.Looking at another disciple, at any rate, all the panaceas he refined had taken shape, but the big ones were the size of an egg, and the small ones were only the size of broad beans.Elder Tianxin picked out one of the elixir with a bright appearance, squeezed it lightly, and it fell into a ball. It turned out to be a donkey dung egg covered in frost, it just looked better on the outside.

After inspecting for a long time, none of the elixirs refined by the disciples were decent.

Elder Tianxin's face was gloomy, and he said to Jinghui: "Jinghui, why are these disciples selected from the outer sect so unbearable? Tianxin Peak does not accept these useless disciples!"

The Xiaodao boy who almost kicked over the alchemy furnace was so anxious that he shed tears when he heard this, kowtowed and said: "Grandfather, please give me another chance, this time I will definitely make a good furnace of alchemy."

It's good that Tao Tong didn't talk, but when he spoke, Tian Xin was even more angry, and shouted: "I said Xu Zhu, do you have another time? How much medicinal material is wasted every time you practice? Hurry up and pack your bags and prepare to go down the mountain."

The Daoist named Xu Zhu didn't know how to answer, so he could only kowtow like pounding garlic.

Jinghui couldn't bear it, and interceded for the disciples: "These children have only studied for two months, so it's good to be able to do this."

Elder Tianxin yelled: "Jinghui, it's not that the old man talks about you, you just have a soft heart! You have taught these disciples the ninth grade of alchemy for several months, not to mention the first grade, and you haven't even touched the door! Next month is Chongxu The old man comes back to the same school, what can you come up with when the time comes? Is this bunch of idiots going to make up the number?"

After that, Elder Tianxin kicked over a cauldron stove, only heard a loud bang, and the stove rolled down along the stream.

Jing Hui and a few of Jing's descendants quickly knelt down on the ground, and those new disciples of the third generation were even more trembling, not daring to take a breath.

Wei Jiang thought in his heart: "This old Taoist has a great temperament, but he is much more difficult to serve than my master."

Elder Tianxin flicked his sleeves and was about to leave when he thought of Weijiang and said to Jinghui: "I will hand over this child to you too, and give him a one-month deadline. If he produces the same thing, he will return Go to Lao Er Yun, there is no need to come again."

After all, he left without looking back.

Wei Jiang thought that the old Taoist Tianxin would reprimand and say a few words, but after watching such a farce today, he asked, "Master Tianxin, what's wrong?"

After being reprimanded, Jinghui felt gloomy, ignored Wei Jiang, and shouted to a group of third-generation disciples: "It's not easy to go back, read the alchemy several times carefully, and then test next month. If you still can't practice next month Well, you all go back to the outer door." After finishing speaking, he sighed and sat at the entrance of the cave without saying a word.

Seeing that there was another one-month deadline, this kind of young disciples thanked Jinghui a thousand times, packed up their belongings, and left secretly.

Wei Jiang thought in his heart that this was a good time, he didn't learn anything from the alchemy meeting, and he was completely scattered.

He only has three days to come to Tianxin Peak, it seems that these few days will be idle again.

Wei Jiang thought to himself, if he didn't learn alchemy at all, he still has to pay others a door.

Seeing that Jinghui was still silent, Wei Jiang approached Jinghui and asked, "Master, tell me, what is Daoist Chongxu, what is Yuqing Palace, what is going on?"

Jinghui looked weird, and said to Weijiang: "I won't tell you about this first, and you will know it later." She looked at Weijiang, thought about it, and asked, "Weijiang, let me ask you, Are you really willing to practice alchemy?"

Wei Jiang wondered: "Could it be that you think I'm just having fun? I'm going to refine the Nine Turns Azure Cleansing Essence Pill!"

Following behind Jinghui, Jingru burst out laughing, Wei Jiang rolled his eyes and said, "What are you laughing at, little girl!"

Jinghui said: "Jingru laughs at you, you don't know the heights of the sky and the depths of the earth, this Nine Turns Sky Blue Washing Essence Pill is the Master, and you can only practice it with a [-]% certainty."

"Where's Miss Xiao?"

"She can't even make this pill into shape."

"Then you should teach me." Wei Jiang's scalp tightened.

So Jinghui took a booklet called "Xiaoyao Danjing" and handed it to Wei Jiang. She didn't bother to talk to him, so she asked him to take it back and study it.Wei Jiang turned over, his old face was slightly red, and he said coyly, "This won't work."

"why not?"

"A lot of words I don't know!"

Jingru burst into laughter again, but Weijiang had nothing to refute at this moment.

The so-called pill method is actually a set of skills on how to select materials, how to match them, and how to control the heat.Jinghui said that the alchemy method was originally born out of Zhongzhou doctors, and it is a combination of the cultivation of the heart and the medicine of the doctors.Many supplementary materials for making pills are commonly used medicinal materials, but they have been recombined by the alchemist and refined with various spirit stones and spirit herbs to seal and transform the spirit energy. With fire as the root, it is absolutely Auxiliary, the combination of heaven, earth and man can become a pill.

The so-called fire is the pill fire for alchemy; the so-called decision is the formula for the processing and compatibility of medicinal materials.

Before alchemy, it is necessary to process the elixir, spirit stone or other natural materials and earthly treasures. There are ten methods of processing: "bleaching, washing, soaking, soaking, calcining, water flying, simmering, frying, firing, and broiling". , Different elixirs have different processing methods.

The ground fire used in alchemy sounds abstruse, but in fact it is just firewood and charcoal fire at the beginning. If one reaches a certain level of cultivation, one starts to use the true spirit fire in the body of the cultivator. It is said that there are people who use Samadhi real fire after reaching a certain level.Jinghui herself has never seen these legendary techniques, so she can't explain why.

The grasp of the fire is the essence of alchemy. Fire is divided into four types according to the size and intensity: fine, gentle, strong, and slight; If they are matched together, there are four to seven 28 variations.In the process of alchemy, the mastery of the alchemy lies in one mind, thousands of people and thousands of methods are completely realized by one person, this is the root of the "Xiaoyao Danjing" that everyone has, and the elixirs that are refined vary in thousands of ways.

Jinghui explained sentence by sentence, and Wei Jiang asked a few more words when he encountered a word he didn't understand. It only took three hours to teach the alchemy method, and the explanation of this "Xiaoyao Danjing" was finished.

"Is this the end?" Wei Jiang asked.

"It's over." Jinghui couldn't help but feel a little ashamed, and continued: "You follow the booklet, find some elixir and try it yourself. The master taught me this way, and I can only teach you this way."

Wei Jiang laughed, and couldn't help teasing: "No wonder all the apprentices you teach look like this!"

"You still have to find a good alchemy furnace. For this thing, you can go to Miss Xiao. She doesn't have many good things." Jinghui said.

(End of this chapter)