Chapter 5 Hundred Refinements (Part 2)
Wu Jie did not go to the bustling big city to search for the legend of immortals as he and his parents said, but instead went straight to the nearby mountains and forests not long after leaving the town.
He walked along the rugged mountain path towards the mountains, getting deeper and deeper, surpassing the limits of herbs used to collect herbs, and even surpassing the deepest places that those skilled hunters dared to enter, and came to the rarely visited mountains.
It was almost late autumn, but there were still many birds, beasts, snakes and insects in the forest. He walked along the way and saw countless snakes and insects and heard many beast roars.
If it were ordinary people, they would have been scared to death in this situation; even experienced hunters would carefully consider retreating at this time, but Wu Jie was unmoved at all and was still moving towards the deep mountains firmly.
But when he saw a poisonous five-step snake that had not yet hibernated from afar, he finally gave up the overly dangerous journey and returned to the world of Heavenly Book to discuss with Jasmine.
"It is definitely not a good idea to go to the mountains to retreat! I have seen traces of bears catching trees just now! If I encounter bears in the woods, I may not even be able to escape!"
"But Master, retreat cultivation must be carried out in places that are not easily discovered and disturbed by others. This is common sense that even rabbits know!"
"Why?"
"Because the monks are relatively fragile when they are in seclusion. Even if they are not invaded by foreign enemies, those intentional or unintentional disturbances alone may cause great trouble... Think about it, there are so many people outside, if someone sees it, it's a good idea..."
"Although there are no one in the deep mountains, there are birds, beasts, snakes and insects. Whether it is ferocious birds of prey or dangerous venomous snakes and insects, which one brings me more trouble than the crowds outside!"
"You are a monk! How can you be a monk who is afraid of beasts and insects?"
"I am just a very ordinary mortal at the moment. Don't compare the requirements of those great masters at that time!"
"But during your cultivation, a lot of medicinal fragrance and spiritual energy will be scattered. Whether in cities or villages, it is easy to be discovered. Be careful of being steamed and braised!"
"I'm not a rabbit! Who would steam and braise me? But if I was in seclusion in the mountains, I'm afraid I would be eaten by wild beasts!"
"Even rabbits don't believe this! Which beast dares to eat someone like you who is full of all poisons? Isn't it afraid of poisoning itself?"
"Don't use this unfounded nonsense to divert the topic!"
After a meaningless debate, Wu Jie came up with a solution to the problem.
There is a legend among hunters that if you carry tiger feces with you, you don’t have to worry about jackals attacking when camping at night, because the aura of tigers can drive away jackals. Wu Jie was inspired by this and asked if Jasmine had a similar solution.
"Do you exude your own breath to drive away the beast? Good idea! Why didn't I expect it!" So Jasmine pierced her fingers and squeezed out a few drops of blood, dripping it on his forehead.
These drops of blood beads flashed and quickly penetrated into Wu Jie's body. In Wu Jie's opinion, there seemed to be nothing special, but Jasmine patted her chest to ensure that no beast dared to attack him again!
As it turns out, these drops of Jasmine's blood are not only very effective, but also over-the-top!
When Wu Jie returned to the world, he saw all kinds of birds, beasts, snakes and insects in the nearby forest fleeing in panic as if in a disaster, and they all escaped without a trace in a while.
On the road that followed, he never saw the sounds of birds, beasts, snakes and insects again, nor did he hear their sounds. In the vast forest, except for his footsteps, the sounds of the mountain wind.
"Just a few drops of blood have such great power?" Wu Jie was shocked, and he also had a greater yearning for practicing to become an immortal.
He had read many novels and films and TV works on the theme of fairy tale before traveling through time, but after experiencing it personally, he deeply realized the extraordinaryness of "Immortals" - a few drops of blood can drive away all kinds of beasts and poisonous insects. How majestic! Walking leisurely between the vast world, without any creatures daring to disturb you, how free and easy it is!
Isn’t the reason why he said goodbye to his parents, relatives and friends and entered the mountains alone just to concentrate on practicing in order to achieve supreme magical powers in the future?
He has no clear concept of how "supreme" the supreme supernatural power is yet, but these few drops of blood from Jasmine have already made him feel like a great supernatural power, and has also made him more determined to practice and become an immortal.
If you don’t work hard and make progress, wouldn’t it be a waste of your life!
According to Jasmine's suggestion, he walked in the forest for five days, and finally stopped in front of a towering mountain and entered the world of heavenly books.
The small field has been harvested once, and the ginseng as thick as a man was piled up in a mess like a carrot, and new ginseng seedlings were planted in the field, a green and vibrant scene.
A large copper tripod was set up under the ginseng tree. Jasmine was next to the copper tripod, happily crushing the ginseng into green soup with magic power, and humming a very suspicious song in her mouth.
"The Taoist sect should be steamed in clean water, which is fat, tender, soft and easy to swallow raw; the Buddhist sect should be cooked with hot oil, and it is crispy and stuffy in one mouthful; the demon sect should be cut alive, with drops of essence and blood fragrant; mortals should be pickled without smell, soak three soak three times and dry side dishes soup..."
Her singing was crisp and tender, and she couldn't say it was cute, but the lyrics were creepy, which made Wu Jie feel a little chill behind him. Especially when he looked at the appearance of the big tripod... it seemed that, maybe, it was just used to cook things...
No, no, that's not the point, the point is... It seems, it seems, maybe, the one that is about to be cooked is Wu Jie himself...
Wu Jie's ominous premonition was not wrong, and he was indeed the one who was put into the cauldron and cooked.
"This is the original method of Senior Brother Ninth. He used external forces to force the medicinal properties into the human body and repeatedly simmered them to achieve the effect of reincarnation and increasing qualifications." Jasmine cast a spell to ignite a ball of green fire under the cauldron. The green fire reflected a proud smile. "This method is called 'medicine refining'. You can use low-level medicinal materials to achieve the effect of high-quality elixirs. It is really cheap and good!"
"This method is so useful?" Wu Jie was a little disbelief, and his intuition told him that there was no such cheap thing in the world!
"Well, it's very useful! Senior Brother Jiu refines medicine every three years, and he can always produce two or three of them with good qualifications. Especially after they have been refined, they will be able to eat whatever they suffer in the future. They are truly craftable materials!"
Wu Jie frowned and thought for a while, until the ginseng soup in the tripod became hot, he realized the key to the problem.
"Marli, how many people do that senior brother Ninth every time he practices medicine?"
"Only thousands of people."
"What about those people except those two or three craftable materials?" Wu Jie asked hurriedly.
"Of course it was cooked to death." Jasmine said as if nothing had happened, "It was cooked into broth. At first, Senior Brother Jiu used these broths to feed the spirit beasts. Later, Master, you advised him that during the refining of medicine, there was no food provided, so that those who were not dead would drink this broth to survive, thereby enhancing the effect of the refining of medicine..."
"That's fine?"
"Senior Brother Jiu also screamed so much at the beginning - later he was very loyal to our sect, willing to work hard to fight in business, and finally became the most capable disciple of our sect..."
Wu Jie can now confirm that the supreme god is indeed a complete evil demon!
"The master is worried about danger, right? Don't worry! Don't worry!" Seeing Wu Jie's face was frightened, Moli thought he was afraid of being cooked to death, and hurriedly promised, "The reason why those people were cooked to death is because Senior Brother Jiu did not intend to train many people, so the protection is limited. Master, you are different. If I watch, there won't be any trouble!"
Seeing that Moli didn't care about the life and death of those people back then, Wu Jie couldn't help but sigh.
He wanted to instill some socialist morality into Jasmine, but then he gave up on this idea - Jasmine has Jasmine's values and morality, and maybe her ideas are more suitable for the world of immortal cultivation than Wu Jie, so why do you have to make her meet Wu Jie's own preferences?
So in the next time, he deliberately skipped some extremely evil topics and talked with Jasmine about the "previous life".
There are indeed many capable people under the supreme god, and there are many people with great power among the disciples. There are also many people with quick thinking and extraordinary intelligence, and countless people with fierce, aggressive and fearless death. Of course, this situation is very necessary, because the fire alone that Jasmine had witnessed had happened more than ten times.
The world of cultivators is not peaceful, especially the Supreme God is still a master of the evil sect. He either comes to the door or attacks the right sect all day long. If there is no enemy, they often take the initiative to attack others to plunder the various resources needed for cultivation...
Wu Jie was secretly shocked when he listened to the fierce fighting, but he also had a little more yearning for the world of cultivators.
With a sword in the world, you can avenge your enemies. Every young man has such a heroic dream in his heart.
Wu Jie had many dreams in his heart, and if he wanted to turn them into reality, he had to practice and become an immortal. Only by becoming an immortal who went in and out of Qingming and immortality could he have enough capital to chase and realize his dreams!
With firm belief, he was suffering in the gradually boiling ginseng soup.
When he finally couldn't stand it and began to become vague and felt that he was about to die, Jasmine waved her hand and a white light fell head-on, and she suddenly woke up again in her mind - the physical pain became more and more obvious.
The pain of being boiled alive by boiling water but unable to faint is simply indescribable. Wu Jie could clearly feel that the skin, flesh and bones of his body were being cooked bit by bit, as if they would fall apart with just a slight shake. However, he was protected by Jasmine using magic and could only float in the boiling ginseng soup, but he would never really fall apart.
This strange and terrifying pain made him almost crazy. I don’t know how many times he thought he had gone crazy, but as long as Jasmine had a spell, he would wake up again and continue to suffer in the boiling purgatory.
I don’t know how long it took, but the ginseng soup in the tripod finally gradually cooled down.
At this time, the originally green ginseng soup had turned into a pot of milky white broth, and a suspicious fragrance continued to waft out.
Jasmine brought Wu Jie out of the cauldron, poured out the broth, crushed and grinded another batch of ginseng with better quality and put it into the cauldron, and began to prepare for the next medicine refining.
"How many times do you need to practice?" Wu Jie asked weakly.
"No matter how much you want, you can complete your transformation." Jasmine said and estimated, "If every time it goes so well as this time, it'll be fine if there are another five times."
So Wu Jie finally fainted.
Chapter completed!