Chapter 36 Teaching Alchemy
After Shen Ruiling returned to the cave, he prepared to write a teaching plan based on his own experience in learning alchemy.
After his spiritual root was detected at the age of six, he has been taught alchemy knowledge by Shen Huanqun. Coupled with his interest in alchemy, he is an alchemy genius known to the whole family. Now he can customize a teaching plan for those children, which is of course handy. But that's it.
Shen Ruiling wrote the last few words on a piece of paper, then picked up the paper, dried the ink, and looked at it himself. He felt that this syllabus for teaching alchemy skills had become more comprehensive after many revisions by himself.
I have a good list of the problems I encountered at the beginning. I will start the formal teaching tomorrow and follow this outline.
Early on the next morning, Shen Ruiling finished his meditation, fed the Soul-Eating Wolf Spider, took care of the medicine garden, and walked towards the school.
Shen Huanyan, who was in charge of the school, read Shen Ruiling's outline, nodded and said:
"Ruiling, although I don't know much about elixirs, I still have some knowledge after living a long life. Your outline is good and the arrangement is relatively comprehensive.
It’s right to spend time on the basics of alchemy. We have already started teaching here about identifying elixirs. Do you think you should skip this part, so as not to affect your cultivation time?" Shen Huanyan also gave it after reading it. own opinions.
"That's fine, but I'd better tell them some important elixirs. I'll leave some bits and pieces to you, the fourth elder." Shen Ruiling thought for a moment and said.
"You are now the highest-ranking alchemist on the mountain. It is best if you can teach them. Just follow this teaching plan and set it in the afternoon every day. Time in the morning is precious and I don't dare to waste it. Your cultivation time, otherwise the clan leader will have to find me." Shen Huanyan said with a smile.
"In the afternoon, after the children have finished the one-hour exercise class, Ruiling, you will start teaching the knowledge of alchemy. I will find some elixirs for you. It is better to see the real thing than the pictures in the book. It’s clear.”
The fourth elder has been in charge of the family school for many years. He is also a teacher himself. He has great experience in teaching. Everything is arranged in an orderly manner and everything is taken into consideration.
After this day, Shen Ruiling officially began his career as a teacher of alchemy.
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Shen Ruiling looked at the dozen children sitting in the hall and said with a serious face:
"What I'm going to talk about next will be helpful to you throughout your life, especially those who have fire spirit roots. Of course, those who don't have fire spirit roots. What I'm going to talk about below will also benefit you throughout your life."
The children below were accustomed to seeing several older teachers. Today, a new young teacher suddenly appeared. Everyone had a curious look on their faces and did not listen to Shen Ruiling at all.
"What I'm talking about today is the knowledge of identifying and collecting elixirs. When you leave the family and go out to wander outside, you must recognize the elixirs you encounter and bring them back intact." After saying that, he took out the "Compendium of Herbs" and said, At the same time, he took out a magical elixir.
"This plant is Lingwu grass, a second-level medium-grade elixir. The leaves are oval and oblong. The cymes are terminal and the filaments are long and slender. The anthers have a peculiar fragrance and can gather spiritual energy, so you can often see the condensation in the grass. If you look at the spiritual mist, you will find this elixir. It grows on hillsides, under forests, roadsides, streams and other damp places..."
Shen Ruiling carefully explained to them the shape and distribution area of the elixir, and occasionally showed them the Lingwu Grass in his hand.
The children were also very curious when they saw the real thing in Shen Ruiling's hand. Usually, the elixir they could only learn about from books and pictures appeared in front of them for the first time. Everyone wanted to rush to the front to take a look.
"Everyone of you, write down the key points I talked about. You can also look for books on elixirs and read them yourself."
Shen Ruiling walked among them, pointed at the children he thought were slightly older and said:
"May I have your name?"
"Sir, my name is Shen Yongchen." The child quickly stood up and bowed.
"You did a good job, you even drew the pattern. I will tell the Fourth Elder and reward you."
"And for those of you who don't study seriously, I will also tell the Fourth Elder." Shen Ruiling looked around and said dissatisfied.
The child who was praised showed a proud expression and immediately began to listen carefully. The children next to him were also envious after seeing it, and they immediately became serious after hearing that Shen Ruiling would complain.
Although Shen Huanyan looks like an old man, he is notoriously strict when it comes to teaching, and even punishes some disobedient children.
Shen Huanyan has been in charge of the family school for decades. Many clan members have completed their studies under his hands. Even Shen Ruiling is no exception. They are all afraid of this stern old man. Even if they leave the school in the future, they will meet him in the mountains. Say hello to the Fourth Elder very respectfully.
Under Shen Ruiling's teaching mode of combining kindness and power, a group of children quickly memorized the appearance, efficacy and distribution location of the second-level elixirs, and were ready for the next alchemy matter.
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"Ruiling, you taught well. In just half a month, these little guys memorized the elixir collection by heart." Shen Huanyan praised with a smile.
"The fourth elder was joking. Ruiling only relied on your power to suppress them."
"What are you going to teach next? Do you need us to help you prepare?" Shen Huanyan reminded.
"Next, I'm going to teach them several steps and magic formulas for alchemy, pharmacology and other things. If I need it, I'll tell you." Shen Ruiling thought for a while and said.
"Okay! If you need anything, come to me."
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"What I'm going to teach today is the method of alchemy. Those of you who don't have fire spirit roots can listen here, or you can ask other teachers for advice."
Shen Ruiling glanced at everyone, stretched out his palm, and a fireball was burning in the palm of his hand. The center of the ball was dark red, and the periphery was surrounded by a light yellow flame. Generally speaking, the higher the flame temperature, the closer the color of the flame is to white. Some The flame of a third-level alchemist is white.
The fireball danced on Shen Ruiling's fingertips, as if it was alive.
"Whether you are an alchemist or a weapon refiner, the most basic thing is the ability to control flames. You must make the flames in your hands become a part of your body and do whatever you want." Shen Ruiling warned.
The child below looked at Shen Ruiling with envy as he played with the flames in his hands. It was the first time he had seen someone use the fireball technique like this.
"After you practice the Qi in your body, you will be able to use your spiritual power to release the fireball technique like me. I will check each of you in the future."
Shen Ruiling took back the fireball and said:
"Alchemy is actually a two-step process. The first step is to remove impurities. A pot of elixir needs to be refined with a main ingredient and other auxiliary drugs. What we alchemists have to do is to extract the useful medicinal effects from these elixirs. , some impurities are removed and cleaned.
The second and most important part is elixir condensation. You need to condense the impurity-free medicinal liquid into elixir. This process is very complicated. I will talk about it later..."
Shen Ruiling began to teach these children the knowledge of alchemy from the shallower to the deeper, from some theoretical things to slowly letting them refine some first-level elixirs.
The first-level elixirs are all inferior elixirs, so Shen Ruiling won't feel bad wasting some.
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Ever since Shen Ruiling took over as a teacher at the family school, time every day has become even more pressing, teaching at three o'clock and one line at a time.
After getting along with each other for more than half a year, Shen Ruiling found a good candidate, the young man from the family who was praised by Shen Ruiling. His talent in alchemy was as good as his own, but the only regret was that he was only a monk with four spiritual roots. He was better than Shen Ruiling.
Not as good as that.
Shen Ruiling also asked the fourth elders to pay more attention to this family member named Shen Yongchen and prepare to train him in alchemy. Shen Ruiling guessed that it was only a matter of time before he became a second-level high-grade alchemist.
Shen Ruiling also met another instructor when he was in school. This person's name was Zhou Qiao. He was originally a casual cultivator. When he got old, he came to the Shen family as a guest. This person only had the eighth level of Qi training, but he was
He is a second-level top-grade talisman maker, so he teaches children the knowledge of talisman making in the school.
The two met during the exchange of classes, and Shen Ruiling also learned a lot from him about the strange things and experiences in the world of cultivation that he had learned through his travels.
Chapter completed!