Chapter 130 Alchemy is actually the way of "good fortune"?
The spiritual field has been planted, and it is still early for the harvest.
Let the monkey do the usual daily care.
The four saplings used in the "Spiritual Wisdom Test" have also laid the foundation for becoming demons, and have entered the observation period, and it is still too early to see the results.
In the next practice routine, apart from step-by-step qi training, the rest of the time is spent on alchemy and wine making.
Alchemy and brewing of course require materials.
The spiritual field planted on the island in the center of the lake has just been sown, so of course we have to find another way to make alchemy and wine.
Hmm... let Gao Zhengzhi do it.
Since the war between the Zongmen and the Four Factions Alliance started, although the situation was stalemate and it was only a local war, it also made Gao Zhengzhi unemployed.
Spiritual weapons and magical weapons have become "military supplies", and Gao Zhengzheng's business can't be done at all.
Gao Zhengzhi has come to Xu Ke many times to complain about his grievances, and now he is asked to buy materials, sell wine and sell elixir, which is considered an additional business, so that he will not be too idle to panic.
Picking up the messenger talisman, Xu Ke talked to Gao Zhengzhi.
"Oh, Huo? My lord sent a message, what orders do you have?"
Gao Zhengzheng said in a strange voice.
"Don't be funny."
Xu Ke cursed with a smile, and then said: "Seeing that you are too busy, I found a business for you."
"Business? Haha! The Hall Master still cares about me!"
As soon as Gao Zhengzhi heard about the business, he became excited. It's also rare for a business to turn into a hobby.
"I plan to refine alchemy and make wine."
Xu Ke didn't talk to Gao Zhengzhi, and directly asked, "You prepare some tools for wine making and alchemy, and buy some raw materials for alchemy and wine making during the Qi training period. I will practice my hands first."
"Alchemy? Brewing? Haha, this is good!"
Gao Zhengzhi suddenly smiled, "Ordinary pills are not controlled by the sect. Spirit wine is not controlled. It is completely open to do business. What you want, I will prepare it for you right away."
After finishing speaking, Gao Zhengzhi hung up the summons, and excitedly went to prepare utensils and raw materials for Xu Ke.
Xu Ke smiled, put down the messenger talisman, and took out a bunch of books from the storage gourd.
These are the various spirit wine formulas and brewing techniques that Zhuo Muxian gave Xu Ke back then.
Because he hasn't made wine, Xu Ke hasn't read these books yet, so he just took them out to study now.
Picking up the books, Xu Ke flipped through them one by one.
These brewing recipes and brewing techniques explain in detail how to prepare the raw materials of various spirit wines and how to operate the brewing process.
The information is very detailed, the description is also very specific, each step is clearly stated, and the ratio of each raw material is expressed very precisely.
Even, during the brewing process, there are detailed and specific requirements for the concentration of spiritual power in the surrounding environment, the nature of spiritual power, and the surrounding temperature.
Zhuo Mu had obviously put a lot of thought into these spirit wine recipes.
Anyone who gets these spirit wine recipes, as long as they are not stupid and their hands are not handicapped, can learn how to make spirit wine by following the example.
For others, this detailed, specific, and highly operable spirit wine formula is definitely the most convenient and practical.
However, for Xu Ke, the specific operation details and process flow are not the most important.
Xu Ke learns any skill and any knowledge, not just to "know how to do it", but to figure out "why to do it".
If you only want to brew spirit wine, you can directly follow these recipes, and you can learn everything by following the example.
However, what Xu Ke wants is not just technology, but to understand the truth.
These spirit wine recipes do not involve any "reason" at all, but pure "operation techniques".
Xu Ke has also learned a lot of cultivation skills.
Drawing talismans, arranging arrays, refining weapons, as well as making talisman papers, blending spiritual inks, blending spiritual fertilizers for farming...etc.
When learning these skills, they all found one thing in common. That is to say only the operation technique, not the reason.
This phenomenon is common in the practice world.
Why is there only "shu" but not "dao"?
This phenomenon... If we understand it according to Xu Ke's previous life experience, it is: Migrant workers only need to know how to move bricks, and they don't need to understand architectural design.
Xu Ke is currently in contact with the practice world, only the Cangmangyuan area, and his understanding of the practice world must be limited.
Perhaps, in the vast world of practice, the Cangmang Plain is just a "country place", and all the monks on the Cangmang Plain are just "country bumpkins".
How much knowledge can a group of "country bumpkins" have?
Xu Ke sighed, the monopoly of knowledge is indeed everywhere!
Aside from this question, Xu Ke continued to look at the wine-making techniques until he had read all the wine-making recipes sent by Zhuo Muxian, and kept them firmly in his heart.
These brewing recipes are purely "operation techniques".
It will take a lot of work to reversely deduce from these "operational techniques" and summarize the "reasons" in them.
Gao Zhengzhi hasn't delivered the tools and materials yet. Only when the tools and materials are ready and he starts to operate, can he summarize the "reason" from them.
Waved a wave of spiritual power, put these spirit wine formulas into the storage gourd, and Xu Ke began to study alchemy again.
Alchemy is the same, there is only "shu", no "Tao".
In addition to the general techniques of "identification of medicinal materials", "treatment of medicinal materials", "fire control technique"...the rest is Zhang Dan Fang.
In this situation of "only alchemy, no alchemy", for the alchemist, every elixir is a new technique, which needs to be learned from scratch before it can be mastered.
Even if one can refine a golden elixir-level medicine, one has to learn it from scratch when encountering a qi training period elixir that has never been touched before, and even has to fail many times before mastering this elixir.
However, if you have mastered the "Dao of Alchemy" and understood the "principle" of alchemy, even if you have never touched a recipe of alchemy, you can understand the truth at a glance.
This is the difference between "shu" and "dao".
Xu Ke has no place to learn this "principle", so he can only explore it by himself, and keep summarizing it.
"Brother Xu, oh no, Hall Master, I'm here!"
While Xu Ke was deep in thought, Gao Zhengzhi called and walked in.
"I bought everything back."
Gao Zhengzhi raised the storage bracelet on his hand, and said to Xu Ke: "I bought the tools and raw materials for wine making from the Lingjiu Workshop of Sinongdian. The furnace and raw materials for alchemy were bought from the Dandingdian .”
"Thanks for your hard work!"
Xu Ke got up with a smile, and brought Gao Zhengzhi to the "Dan Room" reserved by Kunwu Academy.
This alchemy room has preset a "Lihuo Formation", which can directly call the spiritual power of the Hunyuan Formation to drive the firepower for alchemy.
Gao Zhengzhi took out the Dan Ding, and under Xu Ke's command, placed the Dan Ding in the "Li Huo Formation".
"This alchemy tripod is a golden alchemy tripod."
After placing the furnace tripod, Gao Zhengzhi patted the furnace tripod as tall as a person, and said to Xu Ke: "With my ability, of course I can't buy a treasure tripod of this level."
"However, after hearing that it was bought for you, the master of the alchemy tripod directly ordered someone to send a golden elixir-level treasure tripod. He didn't ask for a penny. He also said that if you need anything, just say it. You are welcome."
"Get out! You're not a crab, you're still walking sideways?"
Xu Ke kicked Gao Zhengzhi, "Cultivating seriously is the right way. What kind of prestige, what kind of power, is just a fleeting cloud, and it is useless."
"If you don't build a foundation, you will only have a lifespan of a hundred years. Maybe one day, I will come out of a closed door, and you will be buried in the earth at the end of your life."
After finishing speaking, Xu Ke raised his eyes and looked at Gao Zhengzhi, "Do you want to do this? Do you want to see the loess in a hundred years' time?"
"Be taught!"
Gao Zhengzheng straightened his expression, and bowed to Xu Ke, "I will definitely practice seriously, and I will never slack off."
"You and I have a deep friendship, and I certainly hope that this friendship will last longer."
Xu Ke stretched out his hand and patted Gao Zhengzhi's shoulder, "The Hanhai Jinsha Kungfu you practiced is already the true transmission of Jindan. Your aptitude is not bad. If you practice hard, the future can be expected."
"Golden Core True Inheritance?"
Gao Zhengzhi was full of surprise, "How is it possible? The Hanhai Jinsha Gong is just a foundation-building exercise..."
Speaking of this, Gao Zhengzhi turned his head to look at Xu Ke, his eyes widened, "Could it be you? Is it impossible? You still have this ability?"
"Just as long as you know it, don't spread it."
Xu Ke smiled, "Hehe! My ability is greater than you imagined! Boy, work hard! A great future is waiting for you!"
Gao Zhengzhi took a deep breath, and arched his hands towards Xu Ke, "Don't worry, I will definitely work hard."
The brothers who were hanging out together at the beginning, now go farther and farther, go higher and higher, no matter how hard you work, you can't even see his shadow.
Since my brother is so awesome, how can I be content with mediocrity? You have to catch up!
If you don’t hurry up and practice hard, it is really possible that something will happen: One day, Xu Ke came out of retreat, only to find that I have died of death!
How embarrassing is this?
At this moment, Gao Zhengzhi deeply realized that as a monk, practice is the most important thing, and everything else is secondary.
"Is there anything unclear about your cultivation of the Hanhai Jinsha Kung Fu?"
Xu Ke asked Gao Zhengzhi while sorting out the alchemy materials sent by Gao Zhengzhi.
"Yes! There are many more."
Gao Zhengzhi didn't know that this was Xu Ke's intentional pointing? He hurriedly asked Xu Ke about his doubts in his practice.
Xu Ke took the opportunity to explain to Gao Zhengzhi the practice method of Hanhai Jinsha Kung Fu, starting from the first level of Qi training, all the way to foundation building.
"Understand?"
After finishing speaking, Xu Ke asked Gao Zhengzhi a question.
"Got it! Got it!"
Gao Zhengzhi nodded again and again, "You speak so thoroughly, if you still don't understand, then I don't need to practice. With your guidance, I guess I should be able to build a foundation by the end of this year."
"When you are ready to build the foundation, come to me to build the foundation!"
Xu Ke said to Gao Zhengzhi: "I can use a large array of spiritual power here, which is more abundant than other places."
Xu Ke didn't say that he would help, otherwise, once a dependent mentality is formed, it will not be conducive to Gao Zhengzhi's future practice.
"Hehe! What do you need to say? You are full of aura here, and I am sure to come to bask in it!"
Gao Zhengzhi didn't show any courtesy to Xu Ke.
This is where Xu Ke admires Gao Zhengzhi.
In the past, when Xu Ke was a farm student at the bottom of Hedong Fang, Gao Zhengzhi got along with Xu Ke in the same way. Now, Xu Ke is the Lord of the Palace of Sinog, and Gao Zhengzhi still gets along with Xu Ke like this.
Afterwards, Gao Zhengzhi helped Xu Ke put the wine-making cauldrons and vats in the backyard one by one, and then left.
Xu Ke walked into the "Pill Room", intending to try his hands with the basic elixir of the Qi training period, "Hui Qi Pill".
"Returning Qi Pill" is the basic elixir used by monks during the Qi training period to restore their spiritual power.
This kind of elixir is everywhere, it can be seen everywhere, and it can't be more common.
However, it has a very unusual effect. Huiqi Pill is a "universal" elixir, no matter what kind of spiritual root or skill, you can use "Huiqi Pill" to restore spiritual power.
Before, Xu Ke didn't think it was strange about the effect of "Huiqi Pill".
Now it seems that the "knowledge" and the "reason" contained in it are not simple.
What method can be used to make the spiritual power of a elixir adapt to all spiritual roots, adapt to all exercises, and achieve a "universal" effect?
Could it be that "Huiqi Pill" also has the effect of "Hunyuan Qi"? Can one breath generate ten thousand energy, and can be transformed into any kind of spiritual power?
Then how is this conversion process realized?
Even if Xu Ke uses "Hunyuan Qi" to transform other spiritual power, he must manipulate the operation of spiritual power to achieve it. A elixir, and no one controls it, how can it be done?
Xu Ke felt that the truth contained in this must be very simple.
With a wave of his hand, he activated the Hunyuan One Qi Formation, and the spiritual power was input into the "Lihuo Formation", and a flame surged up.
Xu Ke officially started alchemy.
According to the recipe of Huiqi Pill and the "process" of refining Huiqi Pill, Xu Ke operated step by step, and every step was done in full compliance with the requirements of the recipe.
Fire lotus leaf, yellow root fruit, golden chrysanthemum, narcissus water chestnut...
One by one material, accurately grasp the quantity, accurately grasp the timing of the fire, and constantly put it into the alchemy for refining.
Then... through the eyes of the sky, Xu Ke saw the various alchemy materials put into the alchemy cauldron, and the spiritual energy kept colliding, interacting and merging.
Until the violent and chaotic aura collision and interaction gradually became regular and stable.
In the end, the aura of various attributes merged with each other to form an air mass containing various aura attributes.
Dan is done!
With a wave of his hand, a wave of spiritual power swept over, and a dozen round and bright pills flew out of the cauldron.
Alchemy was successful.
But...Xu Ke didn't understand the process of alchemy.
Through the eyes of the sky, Xu Ke saw the aura collision of various materials in the Danding, the aura interaction, and finally the aura fusion.
But...it doesn't make sense.
From the perspective of the operation and transformation of spiritual energy, this phenomenon of interactive fusion of spiritual energy should not be realized.
If manipulating spiritual power and colliding and interacting in this way, it is impossible to merge into one.
Xu Ke tried it just now.
With Xu Ke's precise manipulation of spiritual power, he couldn't do this, so there must be other reasons.
Here, what else is at work, and finally realized the interactive fusion of various auras?
Besides Reiki, what else... oh, and the herbs themselves.
Alchemy is not only the interaction of spiritual energy, but also the interaction, transformation and fusion of the physical properties of the medicinal materials themselves.
So... this is the "way of physical property change"?
Alchemy is actually a way to "good fortune"?
(end of this chapter)