Fairy cage

Another month has passed.

During this period of time, the old beggar followed Yu Lie, playing music every day and getting massages every night.

Among them, Yu Lie went out to play and hurried back to the Yamen. He still had to seize the time to exercise his body and control his pores.

When the old beggar came back, he fell asleep.

After a full sleep, the other party called Yu Lie, who had just closed his eyes, and slipped out of the Yamen again to have fun.

After being like this for a while, Yu Lie once again suspected that the other party was deliberately testing him, conducting an expert test or something like that.

But after some time passed, he realized that the other party was simply poor and perverted, so he caught him, a fat sheep, and pulled out the wool as hard as he could!

However, with a sleepy bug on his head given by the opponent, Yu Lie did not dare to be disrespectful to this person, and the value of this sleepy bug alone was estimated to be worth a powerful blood weapon.

The other party will still take advantage of the rest.

But later when the other party went out to have fun, Yu Lie no longer followed him every time. He hung the storage bag he got from Fang Wumu on the iron railing, allowing the other party to access the talisman money inside. .

This old beggar is quite disciplined. He takes as much as he uses from the storage bag every day, and no more.

After more than half a month passed, Yu Lie relied on the suppression effect of the prison to complete the accumulation of energy and blood, and then he followed the other party to places like tea rooms again.

And he took the time to go to the Taoist Temple to upgrade his Taoist level.

It's a pity that Lao Yutou and others may have gone down the mountain to do business, so he couldn't find him to catch up with him.

After getting the card from the high-ranking Taoist boy, Yu Lie was considered a famous figure in the entire Blackwater Town.

But he hasn't enjoyed much benefit yet. He just went to the Library Pavilion and obtained the third level of Poison Technique.

Because the battle at Da Dian was not over, the credit had not been settled, and he had temporarily suppressed the idea of ​​exchanging the skills. Yu Lie planned to see if he could get it together later and get a chance to go to the fourth floor of the library pavilion.

On the contrary, it was the old beggar who, as soon as Yu Lie was promoted to the rank of Dao Lu, he started to keep accounts in the town, and it was recorded under Yu Lie's accounts. Now this man didn't even bother to carry money.

The old beggar limped around every day, happily going to and from the prison teahouse and other places, quietly and without saying hello.

Yu Lie often didn't know whether the other party had gone out or hadn't come back yet.

The fact that the other party did not disturb others made it convenient for Yu Lie to continue practicing in seclusion in the Yamen Prison.

It took a total of nearly three months. After Yu Lie had almost completely controlled the pores on his body, he began to refine elixirs in the cage according to the third level of poison skills, in an attempt to cultivate "qi poison" for himself.

Because the town is in the midst of a major war, the town has a rich variety and quantity of various poisons and medicinal materials, which is extremely suitable for Yu Lie's alchemy trials.

He is now the confirmed master of the Medicine Hall, and he can use the prescriptions and other items in the hall at his will.

But more than half a month passed.

On this day, Yu Lie sat cross-legged in front of a big cauldron.

The gunpowder in the bronze cauldron was red, and the high-quality animal charcoal illuminated the dark prison a lot.

Yu Lie closed his eyes slightly, and every thirty-six breaths, he reached out and patted the bronze cauldron in front of him, using his own energy and blood to feel the fire in the bronze cauldron.

It's just that the Taoist boy's Qi and blood are far less sensitive than the Taoist disciple's Qi. At most, he can vaguely feel the heat in the bronze cauldron, which is not very detailed, let alone mobilize the Qi and blood, release it, and actively adjust it. When the heat in the alchemy furnace is high, only true energy can achieve this effect.

Bang bang bang!

After Yu Lie slapped her for nearly an hour, her heart beat slightly and her movements suddenly stopped.

There was a depressed look on his face.

Yu Lie stood up and opened the lid of the copper cauldron. A burning and bitter smell emanated from the cauldron.

Another furnace of medicine was completely exhausted.

Yu Lie just glanced at it, then withdrew his gaze and walked around barefoot on the cold metal altar.

He thought in his mind: "Why haven't I succeeded yet? I took out Fang Lao's altar, cut off a lot of Shi Yin Tai Sui, and threw it in to stabilize the medicinal properties... Is there something wrong with the prescription?"

Yu Lie was confused.

He looked at the copper tripod, which was about the same height as himself, slender and as tall as a drawer of steamer, and continued to stir up various thoughts:

"It's been almost a year since I first started working on the alchemy path. After all, the time is too short. Although I know a few kinds of elixirs, they are all informal elixir prescriptions such as blood-strengthening pills...

Should I use up the opportunity to use my skills after being promoted to a higher position and go to the library to look for this kind of poison recipe? Or give up on refining it yourself? "

Compared with the previous two levels, the third level of Poison Skill, once mastered, will have a body that is invulnerable to hundreds of poisons, and the physical body can resist hundreds of poisons.

But to achieve this step, the poisons required are not just a hundred kinds, but there are also considerable requirements for the quality of the poisons.

Now, the most powerful natural toxin that Yu Lie could find, the poison of the Black Snake Fish King, had been adapted to him while he was practicing "Bone Poison".

In recent days, he swallowed and wiped out all the poisons he could find.

As a result, not to mention completing the progress in one go, he hadn't even collected half of the poisons needed to cultivate the "qi poison".

There are still many suitable poison recipes recorded in the Medicine Prescription Hall, but these recipes are a mixture of gold, stone, vegetation, and flesh and blood, and the refining methods are no longer like blood-strengthening pills that do not even require "fire".

These poisons are all the best among the ninth-grade medicines. They must be refined using formal methods such as the fire method, water method, and sand method. The medicinal materials themselves are already very expensive, and the finished products are even more expensive. Basically out of stock.

Although Yu Lie had just come back from the mountains and was wealthy, he couldn't bear to ask people in the alchemy room to make elixirs again and again. Not to mention, he is now supporting an old man who spends a lot of time living and drinking in the town.

Therefore, Yu Lie had no choice but to make an elixir on his own, and tried to refine the ninth-grade high-quality medicine without anyone's guidance.

As a result, the heat alone tortured him to death.

Every poison recipe was discarded, one pot every day for seven days.

If it weren't for the bronze wine cup in hand, the medicine residue could still be used as waste. Yu Lie's face turned pale just because he felt sorry for the medicine.

Thoughts are in turmoil.

Yu Lie walked on the metal altar, increasingly doubting that he was a loser and feeling discouraged.

Especially when he estimated that time was almost up, he stepped on the altar, sighing, sometimes touching the bronze cauldron, and sometimes banging his head on the cauldron very hard.

Clang!

It's almost like crazy.

He kept mumbling in his mouth: "Fire method, Huo Hou... they are useless!"

Such an "attack" took half a cup of tea. Yu Lie suddenly froze, looked around quietly, and found that there was still no one in the prison.

He wondered: "Why hasn't that old villain come back yet?"

That's right, Yu Lie's "sickness" this time was just to take the opportunity to show off to the old beggar in the prison, gain his sympathy, and let him give him some advice.

Two months have passed since the other party gave him a sleepy head, and this person has not expressed any other words. It is time for Yu Lie to take the initiative.

However, Yu Lie himself was not very sure.

Because if the old beggar is not good at alchemy at all, but is good at other skills, then even if the other party wants to give advice, he will probably be powerless.

Yu Lie looked at the fire that was not extinguished at the end of the bronze tripod and murmured in his heart: "If you don't know how to make alchemy, you can show me a way, give me a book, or make a connection so that I can ask other people for advice."

"Keep pretending!" He decided in his heart, and suddenly took out another earthen jar from his sleeve, and then poured it on the charcoal.

Zhila!

A smelly and dazzling smoke surged from the bottom of the bronze tripod. Because Yu Lie was too close, he suffered instantly.

Even though his eyes had reached the point of "whiteness in the empty room" and his lungs were astonishing, this thick smoke still made his eyes burst into tears and his lungs were choked.

"Cough cough cough!"

Yu Lie stood on the metal altar, coughing almost with snot and tears, "Why is this smoke so offensive to people!"

He was hesitating in his heart whether he should put away the charcoal quickly to avoid further suffering. But when you think about the fact that you have chosen to act pitiful, you have to do it thoroughly so that you can make the other person laugh even if they don't believe you.

Yu Lie also thought to himself: "With this thick smoke, I don't believe you can still sleep."

He closed his eyes tightly, with tears streaming down his face, and coughed on the metal altar while sighing in disgrace.

Just when he really couldn't stand it anymore, someone finally appeared outside his cage. The other party limped closer, and it turned out to be the old beggar.

The old beggar had a refreshed look on his face. He was obviously feeling comfortable before he came back.

He stopped at the door of Yu Lie's cage and saw the billowing smoke in the cage, making the entire prison smoky. However, he was only slightly startled and was not affected at all.

The old beggar was still sniffing like an old smoker, with a look of enjoyment on his face:

"Bat urine? Tiger urine? Flesh-winged tiger urine! The smell is so strong!"

As he spoke, the other party continued to move forward and wanted to go back to his pile of straw to sleep.

But Yu Lie was waiting for this person. Even though his eyes were red, he kept looking at the entrance and exit of the prison. How could he let the other person go to sleep directly.

Among them, when he saw the old beggar looking like he was enjoying himself even though it had nothing to do with him, he suddenly felt complicated emotions in his heart.

Firstly, Yu Lie felt resentful that he had shot himself in the foot. Secondly, he also felt a sense of surprise.

Because the old beggar just sniffed and recognized that the smoke was poured out by Yu Lie on his own initiative, and it was also the urine of a flesh-winged tiger.

Even if the opponent is not good at alchemy, he will still be a powerful person who is good at raising animals and insects!

If it's the latter, although the old beggar can't give advice to Yu Lie in refining elixirs, he can't guarantee that he has a poison more powerful than the black snake fish king toxin in his hands!

In this way, Yu Lie didn't even need to make pills anymore.

Yu Lie coughed violently, opened his mouth and shouted: "Senior, help!"

The old beggar stopped for a moment, turned his head again, looked at Yu Lie, and said in surprise:

"Help? Brother Yu, last time you bragged to the old man that you could slay ten women in one night. We haven't seen you for a few days and you are about to save your life. Did you go to a powerful place without telling me?"

The other party pinched his beard that had been carefully taken care of by the teahouse hostess, and shook his head: "Take it easy, you don't know how to be precious when you are young, and you will cry in vain when you are old."

Yu Lie had long been used to it when he heard the other party's teasing.

Seeing that he had attracted the other party's attention, he no longer shouted, but walked down from the altar, bowed his waist and said directly:

"The boy is stupid. He failed to make alchemy many times. He almost died from taking medicine. I hope the Taoist Master can give me some advice."

The old beggar heard Yu Lie's words and looked at Yu Lie with a strange look on his face: "I don't know much about education, don't lie to me! What you are refining is poison. Only when it is done is it easy to die suddenly. If it is broken, I will spare you." A small life.”

Yu Lie showed a look of resentment and shouted: "Master Taoist, listen to my sophistry!"

But the old beggar was too lazy to listen to him continue to pretend, yawned, and continued walking towards the straw pile.

Just as Yu Lie's face showed disappointment, the old beggar reached into his armpit again, rubbed it, and popped out another clay pill without looking back.

But this time, the mud ball is no longer black, but red, and the whole body looks like a red bean.

And a voice came from the next door: "You kid is not good at heating, so when refining the medicine, just put it in the alchemy furnace and listen to its changes."

Yu Lie held up the red bean-like "mud ball" and found that the red bean ball also squirmed and turned into a small insect. It's just that this one is different from the sleepy bug. It has no wings and is very hot.

"Can you watch the fire, the fire bug?"

Yu Lie was pleasantly surprised and quickly shouted towards the cage next door: "Thank you, Taoist Priest."

After the fire bug popped out, the old beggar had already laid his body in the haystack, motionless. He obviously didn't want to talk to anyone else.

Yu Lie quickly extinguished the coals under the bronze cauldron, took out a piece of talisman that could purify the miasma, and pasted it on the railing between him and the old beggar to clean up the smoke in the prison.

With bright eyes, he pounded and ground the medicine again, and said to the red insect squirming in his palm: "It's up to you, little guy!"

Then the fire insects were put into the copper cauldron together with the first batch of medicinal materials.

Yu Lie did not rush to open fire, but watched the fire bug slowly crawl to a place inside the bronze cauldron. After it stopped moving, he started refining the elixir again.

Next.

Yu Lie leaned against the fire bug and continued to observe the fire.

Although he failed again and again, he found that whenever the temperature of the fire in the copper tripod was different, the fire insects would make a buzzing sound, from small to loud. If the heat in the bronze cauldron is uneven, the buzzing sounds of the fire bugs will come and go, making it unstable.

With the fire bug, Yu Lie undoubtedly had a concrete and intuitive reminder of the heat when refining elixirs.

After several more tests, although he stumbled, he successfully refined the first ninth-grade poison.

In the days that followed, Yu Lie sat in the prison and continued to refine the medicine.

While he was accumulating medicines for his own practice of Poison Technique, he was also using the fire insects to officially start refining fire elixirs and study them intensively.

It's been another half month, and Yu Lie's poison skills have made considerable progress, and he will soon be able to master "qi poison".

He is also becoming more and more proficient in the matter of heat in alchemy. Sometimes he can "see" what stage the heat in the copper tripod is at without the prompting of the fire bug.

The only thing that disappointed Yu Lie was that ever since the old beggar threw him the second worm bean, the other person had been lying next door, unable to sleep for a long time, and no longer went out to have fun.

Even though Yu Lie would sneak out from time to time, get tempting wine and meat, and place them in front of the other party, the old beggar would not move at all, as if he was dead.

finally.

When the wine and meat on the ground were replaced and withdrawn, Yu Lie only needed two or three poisons for his "qi poison" practice.

Suddenly a Taoist boy opened the door in the Yamen and called Yu Lie:

"Fellow Daoist, the big army is over!"

Yu Lie was stunned for a moment, and raised his head in a daze in the cage, realizing that it was time for him to get out of the prison.

He also understood that the two good relationships between him and the old beggar had ended, and it was time to leave. There was no reason to disturb the other party anymore.

Yu Lie ordered the Taoist boy from the Yamen to go out first, while he slowly packed up the bronze tripod and other items, and then walked to the old beggar's cage.

He once again laid out a portion of wine and meat, covered it with straw, and bowed deeply:

"Thank you, Taoist Master. See you soon."

After the salute was completed, Yu Lie hung up the cell door, no longer lingering, disappeared into the light, and completely left this prison.

When the darkness returned to the prison, there was silence.

Suddenly there was the sound of wolfing down food, squeaking and squeaking.

And there was laughter: "I finally left, but I'm so jealous!"

In the cage, I saw a slovenly figure leaning on the railing, grabbing meat with one hand and a wine jar with the other, feasting happily.