"..." Old Man Zhong thought he had heard it wrong and asked, "Why?"

Because you can enter the spiritual vein!

Liu Xiaomo said firmly: "I, Liu Xiaomo, have no father or mother, have no relatives or reason, and have no background. No matter how talented I am, I am just an ordinary guard in the Qi Mansion. But the resources required for martial arts are more than tens of millions, and I have nothing. Others can eat dozens of bone tempting pills a month, or even eat them every day. I only have one a month, and the gap will only get bigger and bigger as I learn to refine medicine. But if I learn to make money and make up for the gap in money."

"So that's it." Old Man Zhong nodded, "It's true. Since you are willing to learn alchemy with me, then from today on, I will be your master. Kowtow and tuition will be waived. You are very talented and you can remember to have me as a master in the future."

"Disciple Liu Xiaomo, I will never dare to forget the master's teachings and teachings!" Liu Xiaomo bent down respectfully and gave a master-apprentice ceremony.

Old Man Zhong nodded with satisfaction and said, "Your position as a guard must be resigned. Since you follow me, there is no need to work so hard in the future."

"...But, after resigning from the position of escort, can I still learn martial arts from the Qi Mansion?"

Old Man Zhong snorted and said, "I want to go to Chuangong Tower to read a few books. Which elder dares to stop me!"

"Thank you for your teachings, I understand!"

He had long since wanted to be a broken guard. He had a low salary and a low status. The most important thing was that he was a high-risk profession!

Old Man Zhong took him to meet all the apprentices in the yard again. All of these apprentices looked at him enviously. After all, there is still a difference between disciples and apprentices.

Old Man Zhong has only 2 disciples in total, and Liu Xiaomo has 3.

The eldest disciple has already left Qi Mansion and went to Donglin City for further studies. The second disciple is the tall and thin man like a bamboo pole sitting in the pharmacy all day long, named Lin Youxun.

When Lin Youxun heard that the master had accepted another disciple, he hurried in to congratulate him.

As for the other apprentices in the pharmacy, they are really apprentices who pay for money to learn the arts, but those who can afford 3,000 taels of tuition must be from good families. Liu Xiaomo is very polite and knows them one by one.

Soon he learned that even apprentices have grades. Among the 26 apprentices, only 9 are qualified to refine body quenching pills, and the rest can only practice some ordinary pills such as dysfunction pills. The oldest apprentice is already in his 40s this year.

Since the position has not been handed over yet, Liu Xiaomo has to be a guard for a few days.

Chen Zhixiong and other guards heard that Liu Xiaomo had learned the art of alchemy and became a disciple of Zhong Yaoshi. After being surprised and unbelievable, they all ran out to congratulate him and talked a lot again. There was no other meaning. Just give them the body tempering pills to them.

The next day, Mo Mingshan also heard the news that Liu Xiaomo had really learned the alchemy and had become a disciple of the pharmacist Zhong. Now he is going to apply to quit his position as a guard and specialize in the refining of the pharmacy.

Mo Mingshan came to the pharmacy in person to ask Old Man Zhong. After confirming, he called Liu Xiaomo out and stared at him for a long time.

Mo Mingshan looked at Liu Xiaomo and said, "You are not allowed to resign from your position as a guard. You can learn alchemy with Zhong Yaoshi, but you have to continue to do the position of a guard. With your age and talent, you will definitely be able to become a centurion in the future. You may not be able to be a centurion, which is more promising than being a pharmacist apprentice."

Liu Xiaomo said "huh" and shook his head and said, "I am Master Zhong's apprentice now, I'll listen to him."

"Listen to me!" Mo Mingshan suppressed his anger, and the momentum of the powerful warrior suddenly came to his face.

Liu Xiaomo decisively retreated to a safe distance and said, "Centurion Mo, please understand, you are not close to you, you have no right to care about what I do. I am already 18 years old and can decide your future."

"I think you are tired of living! Your father gave you to me, do you think I have the right to care about you? If your father knew that you were putting third-class guards but came to be an apprentice, you could peel off your skin!" Mo Mingshan strode forward and was about to take action.

"Captain Mo, since you didn't like me before, why bother me now?"

"Since I promised your father, I must pay attention to you!"

Liu Xiaomo looked at him and knew that it was useless to reason with such a person, and he had to talk about money.

"If Chief Mo must listen to my father, he can also take care of me. As long as you give me a bone tempering pill every day, I will listen to you."

Mo Mingshan was angry and scolded, "You are dreaming that even if your father is still alive, he can't bring out so many elixirs for you to take."

"Uncle Mo, you have two sons and a daughter, as well as your wife, brothers, parents and family to raise them. So even if I go to your doorstep every month to ask you to give me a bone tempering pill, you probably won't give it. Even if you give it, it will make me seem very bad. So I have never taken the initiative to ask you for it over the years, and you have never taken the initiative to give it.

"Since that's the case, why should you stop me from becoming a self-reliant?"

After hearing this, Mo Mingshan tried his best to hold back his anger and said, "I know I have not taken care of you much in the past few years, but that's because you are not good at it. After being beaten by Xiaohong a few times, you broke off the engagement. You are so embarrassed that you have to take care of you. How do you want me to take care of you? But now you are a third-class guard and your talent is not inferior to your father, you must use this talent to strive to become a centurion, or even a thousand-class guard, first-class guard!

"I said too, I won't stop you from learning medicine, but you can continue to do the guard position while following Master Zhong to learn medicine, without conflict! I'm for your own good!"

Liu Xiaomo shook his head and asked again: "Cultivation requires not only talent, but also money and pills. Can you give me a few bone tempering pills every month?"

"One at most!"

"Then Chief Mo, please come with me."

Liu Xiaomo was too lazy to talk nonsense, so he walked to the side of the medicine practice stove and started to hang up the machine to refine medicine.

Half an hour later, Liu Xiaomo sneered and turned around, pointed to the medicinal glue in the medicine furnace, and asked, "Captain Mo, how do you see these body quenching pills? How much is it worth? As long as I give me enough materials for such body quenching pills, I can practice 500 pills a day. How much does it cost?"

Mo Mingshan stared at the body quenching pills in the medicine furnace and fell silent directly.

He just knew that Liu Xiaomo had become an apprentice of a pharmacist, but he did not believe in his talent. It would be good for the apprentice to take out 300 body tempering pills every month...

"Since that's the case, I won't stop you, but you have to continue practicing martial arts." Mo Mingshan left after saying that.

Liu Xiaomo snorted. Mo Mingshan didn't care about him before. When he became a bone-forging warrior and a third-class guard, he suddenly ignored him. What had he done long ago?

How can a true elder dislike the younger generation?

But there is no way. The original owner was indeed raised by Mo Mingshan, and the grace of raising him is a great favor in any dynasty, even in modern times. He may not care about this relationship, but he cannot cut it off directly.

More importantly, if it weren't for Mo Mingshan's first day of traveling, he would probably have been beaten to death. After all, the fourth-class guard trespassed into the lady's garden, which was a death sentence. Mo Mingshan saved his life.

Three days later, Liu Xiaomo officially changed from a third-class guard to a pharmacist apprentice and no longer had to work on duty, but the contract signed with the Qi Mansion is still there. He is still a member of the Qi Mansion, and the medicine he has practiced belongs to the Qi Mansion. It does belong to it.

Zhong Yaoshi gave Liu Xiaomo two books on refining medicine, one of which is called "Qi Sense", which teaches people how to use Qi to feel the fusion of medicinal materials when refining medicine. People without Qi cannot practice pills such as body quenching pills.

But Liu Xiaomo was refining medicine by hanging up the machine, so it doesn’t matter whether he has a sense of energy, just have it in the system.

Another book has no name, it contains 5 methods of refining prescriptions: Quyi Pills, Duckda Pills, Qingxue Pills, and Jiedu Pills.

After reading it, Liu Xiaomo finally understood what the medicinal materials of Body Tempering Pills are. The main medicine of Body Tempering Pills is the skin of various monsters, and any monster skin can be used. However, for the sake of cost, the most common monster skin is generally used. According to senior brother Lin Youxun, it is mainly a kind of skin of a demon rat. Body Tempering Pills are essentially a kind of donkey-hide gelatin.

As for the other four pills, Liu Xiaomo was not interested.

After a few days, Liu Xiaomo has confirmed that as long as he hangs up the machine to refine medicine, the success rate will be 100%, and he will not fail unless interrupted. The other apprentices have the possibility of failure every time they refine medicine, and the probability is quite large.

The skills of body quenching pills are also very good. He can start the furnace one after another after successfully opening it, and he can start the furnace once every half an hour, and each furnace can make almost 15 balls. After the proficiency level is improved from the entry-level to the proficiency, what he still practices is still ordinary body quenching pills, but each furnace changes from 15 to 16.

He asked Lin Youxun that every time the apprentice practiced 10 body tempering pills, he could get one by himself, which was considered a commission. But as a disciple of Zhong Yaoshi, Liu Xiaomo could get two body tempering pills every time he practiced a furnace, and there was no problem with it, so don't go too far.

After practicing each furnace, Liu Xiaomo would take a few back to his room to practice, and practice another furnace after eating, and completely lived a life without lacking body quenching pills.

However, the effect of taking body-tempering pills is not great, so he can only reduce his proficiency from 60 minutes to 40 minutes.

Therefore, it is necessary to obtain the method of refining bone tempting pill.

There is another question he was a little worried about, and he asked: "System, will I have resistance to drug use and unstable foundations when I take pills like this?"

"Please rest assured that this system will perfectly extract any spiritual substances and will not leave any safety hazards."

After hearing the system's answer, Liu Xiaomo felt relieved and understood the meaning of the system. It was the system that absorbed the drug, not Liu Xiaomo, but the effect was feedback to him. Moreover, compared to taking drugs... hanging up seems to affect the foundation more, right? This is not something I practiced by myself!

I'm enough, so how can I get the right to dislike taking drugs if I hang up?

Liu Xiaomo's success rate of opening the furnace was so high that not only shocked the elementary apprentices around him, but even Master Zhong couldn't believe it... This seemed to be higher than him.

Liu Xiaomo didn't care what others thought. After all, if the martial arts realm improves too quickly, people may wonder if there is an adventure and attract peeping.

But the great alchemy technique can't be an adventure, right? It only makes people feel that he is talented.

He didn't take the initiative to ask Master Zhong about more prescriptions. As long as he continued to practice like this, Master Zhong would definitely take the initiative to teach him more prescriptions.

Sure enough, five days later, after watching him start another furnace without any haste, he took the initiative to call him in front of him and said with relief: "Your medicine talent is the best you have ever seen. Unfortunately, it would be great if you have the talent of spiritual veins."

Liu Xiaomo asked, "Master, I heard that real elixirs must have true qi to be refined?"

Master Zhong nodded, shook his head again, and said, "It's not true qi, but spiritual energy. Do you know that the materials of Body Tempering Pills and Bone Tempering Pills are actually not much different, but the effects between the two are more than ten times different. The reason is that the bone Tempering Pills are involved in the refining process."

"Real energy?"

"Yes, spiritual energy! The martial artist practices is to temper the body through spiritual energy, from calculating the body to calculating the bones, from entering the strength to transforming the strength, and in fact, they are using the spiritual energy between heaven and earth to tempering themselves... And alchemy is very similar to martial arts practice. Martial arts are to temper the body by martial artists, and alchemy is to use spiritual energy to refine medicinal materials using spiritual energy, and finally refine medicinal materials into pills.

"So if you want to refine alchemy, you must have spiritual energy. Most people cannot call and control spiritual energy. Only cultivators have spiritual veins. Even cultivators in the Qi training stage can freely call spiritual energy. Therefore, if you want to become an alchemist, you must be a cultivator."

Alchemy is to use spiritual energy to temper medicinal materials?

"But I heard that warriors who transform the power can also refine elixirs?"

"Yes, the energy of the Huajin warrior is actually true qi, called martial arts true qi, but it is very mixed, and its control over spiritual energy is even worse than that of the first level of Qi training. Therefore, the Huajin warrior can only practice some low-level elixirs, such as bone tempering pills, but low-level elixirs are of no use to Huajin warriors, so few Huajin warriors specialize in alchemy, which is not worth the effort."

Liu Xiaomo couldn't help but feel silent. Do you really need to work hard to hang up, and then transform your strength before you are 30 years old and then go to practice the truth?

"Is there no other way?"

Zhong Yaoshi smiled and said, "There are still some, but they are also extremely restrictive. Find a spiritual vein, ignite the spiritual fire, and use the spiritual fire to refine elixirs. There is a faint spiritual fire inside our Qi Mansion, which can help us refine some real elixirs, but this method has extremely high requirements for the pharmacist's skills and talents. At the beginning, nine out of ten furnaces were destroyed, and the cultivation cost was extremely high."

"Please teach me by your master!"

"This is the recipe for fish scale pills. Fish scale pills are one of the few elixirs that can be practiced without spiritual fire. They are also an assessment to test whether a pharmacist is qualified to borrow spiritual fire. As long as your success rate of refining fish scale pills reaches more than 60%, you are qualified to enter the Qi Mansion Spirit Vein and use real spiritual fire to refine elixirs. From now on, you will be regarded as a guest of honor wherever you go."

Liu Xiaomo took the fish scale pill recipe and looked carefully. He found that the so-called fish scale pill actually has nothing to do with fish scales. It is a pill made with a spiritual medicine called fish scale grass. Although this fish scale pill is not precious and can be said to be very common, it is a real spiritual medicine, and its grade is not low, and it costs more than 100 taels per plant.

The effect of fish scale pill is mainly to strengthen the body and promote blood circulation, prolong life, and is not a pill used by warriors to practice.

Liu Xiaomo looked at his skill panel. After a few minutes, the system had learned this pill recipe and skills appeared.

Alchemy·Fish Scale Pill (Introduction to 0/200).

It takes 200 points of experience to get started. It seems that this is indeed an alchemy technique. Liu Xiaomo also confirmed one thing: as long as there is a pill recipe, you can learn anything in the system, but you don’t know if you can skip the requirements of spiritual energy and directly refine alchemy.

"Master, this pill recipe is not difficult. Disciple can try it now." Liu Xiaomo said confidently.

"Oh?" Zhong Yaoshi smiled slightly and said, "Come with me."

Pharmacist Zhong took out the medicinal materials of the fish scale pill, asked the apprentices to burn the fire to the maximum, and then signaled Liu Xiaomo to start refining the pill.

Liu Xiaomo walked to the medicine furnace, looked at the fire below, and began to hang up the machine to refine the alchemy.

Although fish scale pill does not require spiritual fire, it has extremely high requirements for temperature, even if the system is hanged up, it is no exception. So from this point of view, elixir recipes such as bone tempering pills may really require spiritual fire.

Under the system operation, Liu Xiaomo put the medicinal materials into the alchemy furnace in order without any haste and continued to refine them.

When I heard that Liu Xiaomo was practicing fish scale pills, except for the apprentices in the store, everyone else came to watch.

Zhong Yaoshi looked at Lin Youxun, the second disciple beside him, and whispered: "Look at it well, don't be envious, and there is no need to think too much."

"Disciple knows."
Chapter completed!