Chapter 26: The Supreme Alchemy Sutra (two chapters in one)
Outside the tea house, the carriage slowly stopped.
I heard a burst of yelling and cursing coming from the teahouse.
"You bastard, sooner or later I will kill you!!! Beast!! I want to quit the team!!"
Everyone heard the yelling and followed the sound without knowing why, but the sound soon stopped abruptly.
After a while, he saw Zhao Peng carrying a young man downstairs with an expressionless face. The young man was quite handsome, but he had a swollen panda eye on his face. He just threw him onto the carriage and
He was standing by the carriage with a dark face.
After about a while, Tu Feiyuan walked downstairs with the help of Nie Haitang and got into the carriage with Nie Haitang.
As soon as he got on the carriage, Nie Haitang couldn't help but feel sorry for Zhang Haisheng beside him: "To talk about a brother, bah, you are a disciple! Despicable and shameless! A sanctimonious hypocrite."
Tufeiyuan patted his chubby belly. Faced with his disciple's complaints, he didn't know how to respond. He always felt that Haitang's words were scolding him, but he didn't think he was scolded?
"Master, you just gave him the Taishang Alchemy Sutra like this! Isn't it too cheap for him? And the Biluo Dan he mentioned, my disciple has never heard of it. He must be lying to you, Master!"
Haitang's voice changed and she started chattering towards Tufeiyuan again.
Hearing this, Tu Feiyuan felt dizzy and could only wave his hand: "A book of alchemy is nothing. Besides, he saved Yuyang this time. This can be regarded as a reward from Huntian Prison."
After saying this, Tu Feiyuan looked thoughtful.
According to the statement of the crown prince Li Zheng, he accidentally ate something called Biluo Pill, and his soul ascended to Biluo, where he was taught the Dharma by Fairy Biluo.
"The one who went up to the poor and fell into the underworld, huh, let's just say it's true."
After Tu Feiyuan finished speaking, he glanced at the unconscious Zhang Haisheng beside him: "Destined person, destined person, how should I use this??"
Accompanied by Tu Fei Yuan's muttering, the carriage had already left Yuyang City.
Xu Tong stood on the top of the city tower and didn't feel relieved until he saw the carriage completely gone.
"I'm sorry, brother, it's better to be a Taoist friend than to be a poor Taoist. Anyway, the old guy won't harm you..." Xu Tong said, calling out the prop book, looking at the prop card, he couldn't help but feel happy.
[Tai Shang Dan Jing]
The carrier's success rate in refining alchemy increases by 30%, and the efficacy of the refined elixir increases by 10%.
Active skill 1: Shennong
Spend 20 script points to identify the characteristics of medicines in the world.
Cooling time: none
Active skill 2: Supreme Alchemy.
After activation, you will gain the Supreme Alchemy Technique, which will increase the alchemy efficiency by 300% and increase the probability of forming an elixir by 50%, and there is a certain probability of triggering the elixir pattern.
It consumes 1 script point every minute.
Active skill 3: Taishang Alchemy Sutra
After activation, the elixir can be specially sealed. The longer the elixir is sealed, the stronger the effect of the elixir.
(Note: Be careful, it is the third part of the medicine that is toxic, and the great tonic is Angelica sinensis.)
Looking at this item card, Xu Tong's little calculation has started to move in his heart. He has a fairy furnace, an alchemy scripture, and a golden finger. He wonders if they can refine some treasures by working together.
The only thing left now is to find suitable medicinal materials for alchemy.
It's a pity that Zhang Haisheng can only sell it once. If he could sell it several times, with Huntianjian's family background, he would have become rich long ago.
But thinking of this, Xu Tong couldn't help but feel more wary of Huntian Prison.
Zhang Haisheng's strength is not bad, but he knocked him unconscious after punching him. Ordinarily, his strength should not be like this. The problem is most likely due to the shackles on his legs.
The shackles that can limit a person's strength... I have to be more careful in the future.
Of course, I am not completely sorry for him.
After all, Xu Tong said it was impossible not to guard against Tu Fei Yuan, so this punch was not in vain.
"Facai, are you sure Tufeiyuan won't discover your clone?"
Just in case, Xu Tong checked with Facai again.
Fa Cai lay down at the entrance of the hall, shook his head, and said that as long as the clone was in a still state, no one would be able to detect anything unusual.
"Ah That's good!"
After confirming that there was no problem, he felt relieved. After Zhang Haisheng woke up and came into contact with the fortune clone, he could use the characteristics of the fortune clone to unshackle the shackles. Will he be able to escape from Tu Fei Yuan's clutches?
That's his own business.
After jumping off the tower, Xu Tong went to inspect the river again. As the sun set, he walked leisurely towards the post house.
When he arrived at the post house, Xu Tong saw two carriages parked in front of the post house.
At first glance, there is the mark of Youzhou Governor on it.
"Is Jiang really here?"
Seeing this, Xu Tong frowned.
He actually didn't have a good impression of the governor of Youzhou at all. If he hadn't received a tip from his sister, he would have known earlier that if he wanted to build a river channel, he had to kill the river demon first.
I rushed into Yuyang City rashly, but I was afraid that completing the identity mission would not be as easy as it is now.
Not knowing what this guy was doing here, Xu Tong patiently walked into the post house.
As soon as he entered the door, Guo Yi greeted him.
"Your Majesty, the assistant officer from the Governor's Office is here."
"Sergeant! What is he doing here?"
Xu Tong frowned and asked.
According to the system of the Great Zhou Dynasty, only officials of the fourth rank or above are qualified to be assigned assistant officers. In fact, they can also be understood as the position of secretary.
Oh, not the kind of secretary who warms the bed, but an official with independent administrative privileges, similar to the secretary-general in reality.
As for this assistant officer, in reality, his status would be equivalent to the secretary-general of the provincial department and the actual level of the main office.
In terms of official position, he is still one level higher than himself, who is from the fifth rank.
"I said I wanted to send you something. Do you want to type it out?"
Guo Yi didn't have the slightest favorable impression of the governor, who was in the prime of his corpse.
My eldest son is supported by all the people this time, and he will definitely be praised by the court after he returns. Coupled with his identity, I am afraid that he has a bright future, so why should he have anything to do with such a person.
It only ruined the name of his own eldest son.
"No, let's see what it is first!"
Xu Tong shook his head at this: "After all, we have to stay here for a while, there is no need to provoke this local snake."
In the governor's mansion two days ago, Xu Tong could tell from the words of Shenwu Guard Luohu that he was protecting Jiang Zhen.
If you think about it carefully, before Song's relatives and friends committed suicide, Jiang Zhen stepped on the spot in time to reveal these unsolved mysteries, and all of them have answers.
So behind Jiang Zhen is the Wu family, and behind the Wu family is the current saint.
With my identity, if I go to poke the Wu family in the butt now, if I am not careful, I will fall into complete passivity. Only a fool would take this kind of unnecessary and profitable risk.
He followed Guo Yi to the yard behind and saw a dozen large boxes already placed in the yard.
You don't need to open it to know what's in the box, but the assistant officer is standing in the yard waiting with a large wooden box alone.
After seeing Xu Tong come back, the assistant officer immediately stepped forward, crossed his hands with thumbs up, and made a cross-hand salute: "I am the assistant officer of the Prefectural Governor's Office. I have paid homage to the crown prince. On the order of my family, I have come to deliver something to the crown prince."
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After the assistant officer said that, he asked someone to open the red cloth behind him. Xu Tong took a closer look and found that it turned out to be a ginseng.
“So big??”
Even though Xu Tong was well-informed, he was shocked when he saw this ginseng. He couldn't help but secretly rejoiced: "If you are really sleepy, someone will give you a pillow. Now the materials for making alchemy are delivered to your door."
Even Guo Yi and others on the side were shocked. Good guy, the last time they stewed tortoise soup in front of the City God's Temple, those wealthy businessmen raised funds and sold a century-old ginseng. It was already big enough.
Compared with the ginseng in front of me, it is so different that it makes people wonder whether this thing and ginseng are the same species.
In the huge box, a ginseng as thick as an adult's arm was tightly wrapped with two red ribbons.
Each ginseng root is like a waterfall, and the whole body is golden with a hint of purple light.
Even the ginseng leaves remain fresh and tender.
At first glance, it looked like it had just been dug up.
Such a large ginseng is simply a rare treasure in the world.
"Headmaster, this thing has become a spirit!!"
When Da Ya saw ginseng at the entrance of the hall, she almost instantly transformed into a husky, and her voice suddenly rose eight levels.
She looks like a country girl from the countryside, with a face that has never seen the world.
Speaking of which, there are a lot of ginseng in Changbai Mountain in the northeast.
There is even a thousand-year-old ginseng hidden in the Five Immortals Hall, but even the thousand-year-old ginseng is not that big. If you encounter someone who doesn't know the goods, you will think that it is a big radish grown by someone.
Seeing Xu Tong's surprised expression, the assistant officer couldn't help but secretly feel proud. In fact, it was not the first time he saw this thing, but every time he saw it, he always sighed, it was a treasure gathered from heaven and earth.
Originally, the governor planned to stay on his own, but later he learned about the top-notch soup in the Chenghuang Temple and almost sent several members away on the spot, so he changed his mind and planned to give it to the Prime Minister.
Now the wind direction has changed, and these rare treasures have been delivered to Master Li.
A mere fifth-grade official might not even be qualified to take a look at him in ordinary times.
"Your Majesty, my governor said that this ginseng is a family heirloom. It has been passed down from generation to generation since my grandfather's time. In order to ensure that the medicinal properties of this treasure are not affected, this ginseng has always been hidden in the Jiang family's ancestral home.
It has been planted in the temple for two hundred years now, and my lord said that this ginseng has the effect of bringing the dead back to life!"
Zuo Guan introduced the origin of this ginseng eloquently, and finally boasted about the miraculous effects of this ginseng.
This caused the followers to burst into exclamations of exclamation.
After all, for such an adult, ginseng is about to become a spirit. It is not an exaggeration to say that it has the effect of bringing the dead back to life.
However, when Xu Tong heard this, he immediately sneered and said: "Oh, I don't believe in bringing the dead back to life. How about I kill you and give it a try with you!"
"ah!"
The assistant officer was startled, and when he raised his head, he felt a coldness in his throat, and saw that the Crown Prince's knife was already on his neck.
The cold touch on the blade made the officer's heart jump to his throat.
That cold murderous aura could never be faked. The officer's Adam's apple squirmed for a moment, he swallowed a mouthful of spit, and said with a smile: "I can't do that, my eldest son, I... I'm addicted to it, and I'm talking nonsense."
"snort!"
Xu Tong sneered and put away the knife in his hand: "I think so. If it were so easy to bring back the dead, this thing could send away three generations of governors in your family??"
The assistant officer didn't know what to say for a moment and could only lower his head.
When Xu Tong saw that the beating was almost done, the cold expression on his face suddenly changed, and he showed a smile that looked like sunshine. He patted the assistant officer on the shoulder and heard his voice change.
"Resurrection from the dead is an exaggeration, but it is still possible to treat illnesses and injuries and give people a chance to breathe."
The assistant officer was startled and immediately understood the meaning. He cupped his hands and said, "What the prince said is true, and my lord thinks so too."
"Okay, thank your lord for me, and tell him that I will visit you again when the river project is completed. Thank you for your great help, Lord Governor."
As he spoke, Xu Tong picked up the tea brought by Sanniang and took a sip.
As the saying goes, serving tea to see off guests, the assistant officer naturally understood what he meant and stood up to say goodbye.
After the assistant officer left, everyone immediately gathered around the ginseng to watch.
But no one thought about eating this thing.
After all, the last time I had Bastard Soup had made many of my followers realize that this was something that most people really couldn’t enjoy.
One hundred-year-old ginseng made their waists hurt for several days, let alone this thing.
But having said that, if I could just have one bite, it would be worth it to be straight for the rest of my life.
"Guo Yi!"
Xu Tong called Guo Yi and told him to add all the silver coins he sent to the river project fund, as a red envelope to the river workers.
After all, my financial luck is so bad that there is no benefit in keeping this money with me, so I might as well spend it as soon as possible.
Of course, Xu Tong did not forget these followers around him.
Even if among these people, except Guo Yi, he treats himself sincerely, the others are just hanging around him.
But Xu Tong still divided some of it and asked Guo Yi to distribute it to these followers.
After all, what a person lives for is just these few taels of silver.
As for this ginseng, he naturally put it away because he wanted to make an elixir. This thing came and it just happened to be the material for the elixir.
"Thank you, Your Majesty!"
As soon as they heard the cents, these followers immediately became happy. Before, they were complaining about the fact that the prince paid lavishly to the river workers but never gave them a tael of silver. Now with the heavy silver falling on their hands,
The unhappiness in my heart immediately disappeared.
"Sanniang, this is yours!"
Guo Yi walked to the kitchen, took out a heavy piece of silver and handed it to Sanniang beside him.
"I don't want it. I can't even spend all the money the prince gave me, so what can I do with this? I don't want it!"
Sanniang was just busy cooking and refused after taking one look at the money.
"Hey, this is a reward from the Crown Prince. There is no reason to refuse it. Take it!"
Guo Yi was also a stubborn donkey. When Sanniang refused, he put the money into Sanniang's hand without hesitation.
"What are you trying to do? I don't want it, so take it away!!"
Sanniang immediately pushed it up, and a piece of silver fell to the ground with a "pop" as the two of them pushed it back and forth.
Sanniang and Guo Yi were startled, and then looked at their hands still tightly clasped.
Seeing this, Sanniang's face turned red, she pushed the stunned Guo Yi away as if she was a little angry, raised her hand to pick up the water gourd in the water tank, and splashed cold water on Guo Yi's face.
"go out!"
"you!!!"
Guo Yi's eyes widened, he looked at the silver on the ground, then looked at Sanniang who was blushing, curled his lips, picked up the silver on the ground and slapped it on the table.
"Bang! It's the prince who gave it to me anyway. Do you like it or not?"
After saying that, Guo Yi walked out without looking back.
When he walked out of the door, he saw a group of followers looking at him with strange eyes. They immediately stared at him: "What are you looking at? Follow me to the river to oversee the work!"
Seeing that Boss Guo was getting angry, everyone immediately calmed down and followed behind.
In the kitchen, Sanniang's heart was still pounding. She glanced at the silver on the table, and suddenly she couldn't laugh or cry again. She saw a good ingot of silver, which was turned into a pancake.
Zhou Niang held the silver cake in her hand, and remembering Guo Yi's blushing face just now but not daring to show off, she couldn't help but burst into laughter: "This stubborn donkey..."
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The river project was completed faster than Xu Tong thought.
Especially after Xu Tong distributed all the money sent by Jiang Zhen to the river workers, everyone started working harder than the other.
It only took half a month.
The river channel is almost completed.
In the past half month, Xu Tong has gradually integrated himself into the role of Li Zheng, playing the role of an official during the day and benefiting good officials in the area.
In the evening, Yuan Shen escaped into the hall and began to concentrate on refining elixirs.
In addition to the ginseng root, he also had some old medicines purchased from the local pharmacy.
Fortunately, in this era, the degree of development of traditional Chinese medicine is much higher than in reality.
As long as they are not rare treasures from the mountains and wild places, other common medicinal materials can be purchased in most drug stores.
In addition, Xu Tong's prestige in Yuyang City has far surpassed other local officials. When the drug store owners saw him, they wanted to take out all their housekeeping treasures and send them back to him.
At that time, he actually collected a lot of high-quality medicinal materials.
Plus the Wulingzhi provided by Jixiang for free.
The ingredients for a furnace of elixirs were almost ready. After some trial and error refining using the Taishang Alchemy Sutra, a lot of elixirs were finally produced.
Two of them are for increasing cultivation, and one is for getting rich. After all, it loses the most and needs to be replenished.
The other one was divided in half between Daya and Jixiang.
The rest was refined into five ginseng and five-fat pills.
However, not a single Taoist elixir could be refined. During this period, he also lost 6,000 script points due to the use of golden fingers, which made Xu Tong roll on the floor in distress.
I could only cry sadly, use my mountain buckle, and go to find the master in despair.
You wouldn't know it until you go in. As soon as you enter the door, you will see that the old tree with a crooked neck of the eldest princess has suddenly grown into a big tree in the sky.
There is also a swing hanging on the tree.
Of course, no matter how Xu Tong looked at it, he felt that the swing was made of hanging ropes.
Sensing Xu Tong's aura, the eldest princess fell down from the tree crown in white clothes, sat on the swing, and waved to Xu Tong to come up and sit with her.
"No, I'm afraid of heights!"
When Xu Tong saw this, he immediately shook his head and refused.
Immediately, his eyes were fixed on the eldest princess: "Why do I feel that your strength has become higher again??"
"Hey, do you think I was bragging with those old Taoist priests in Qingcheng Mountain last time?"
The eldest princess has two pairs of dimples on her face.
The last time the two of them went to Qingcheng Mountain to eat instant noodles, the meal was not in vain.
Just as the eldest princess said, although there are no opportunities to practice in reality, this does not prevent the Taoist priests from concentrating on practicing Taoism.
On the contrary, because there is no threshold for the realm of cultivation, and I focus wholeheartedly on improving the inner essence, this further conforms to the concept of the great road of nature and returning to nature.
So despite the fact that those old Taoist priests are not very powerful, not even great masters, but in terms of their understanding of Taoism, even if they pull the old Taoists over, they may not be their opponents.
After the eldest princess was enlightened by these experienced experts, what she didn't understand before was immediately clear. Naturally, her strength soared at an alarming rate.
At this point, Xu Tong could only envy him.
He was there that day, but what happened was that he listened to those experienced people talking so wildly. As for what they were talking about, he didn't even remember a single word.
"Don't tell me, my master, I was there at the time!"
Thinking of this, Xu Tong had to lower his voice and whispered to the eldest princess.
If my master knew about this, he might force me to endorse it again.
"Hmph, it depends on my mood."
The eldest princess pursed her lips and stretched out her palm towards Xu Tong: "Lend me some merit."
"Haha, it sounds like you will pay me back."
Xu Tong rolled his eyes. This was definitely a case of meat buns beating a dog and never coming back. However, he still gave part of the merit incense to the eldest princess.
After receiving the incense merit, the eldest princess twirled her fingers with satisfaction. Suddenly, black water rolled up in front of her eyes, making way for Xu Tong.
"Obviously I'm going home, but why is it like driving on the expressway? I have to pay a fee to get in."
Looking at the way out of the way, Xu Tong muttered with dissatisfaction.
As a result, as soon as I walked over, I saw the old Taoist sitting on the threshold with no intention of giving way.
"Ahem! My ears have been a little irritated these days. I didn't hear anything just now."
The old Taoist raised his head, narrowed his eyes and opened his hand towards Xu Tong, as if you don't open the door for me, I won't open the door for you.
Xu Tong sighed, thinking that with his little fortune, couldn't he even retain the merits of incense?
Fortunately, the City God's Temple has become deeply rooted in people's hearts. I have too many things like incense and merit, so I don't feel any distress if I give some to the old Taoist.
Just as he was about to walk inside, he suddenly thought that since these two people had given it anyway, it was not bad to give out one more. He glanced at the depths of the black water behind him, at the huge mountain ghost and the one from the Mei family.
Zombie ancestors.
So he took out two more copies and asked the old man to send them to them.
"Master, you are generous!"
The old Taoist took the merit and immediately went to deliver it to these two guys.
Xu Tong opened the door smoothly, and as soon as he entered, he saw his master and master sitting in the pavilion drinking tea.
Because the master is just a ray of soul attached to Cheng Huang's body, I still stay here.
In the words of the master, by deceiving the secrets in this way, even if someone wants to investigate, they will not be able to find out the origin of the person standing in the statue of the City God, which saves a lot of trouble.
Now it seems that Master still has foresight.
Xu Tong believes that both the Shenwu Guards and the Huntian Prison must have worked hard in this area.
Just because I couldn't find anything, I didn't mention it to myself.
"Hey, why are you here today??"
When the master saw Xu Tong, he couldn't help but wave to him with a smile on his face.
When Xu Tong raised his nose, he was like a child who had been wronged when he went out. He threw himself into the arms of Master Xue Gui with a sad face: "Grandpa Master, I failed in refining alchemy..."
Thank you for everyone's concern. Don't worry. It's just chronic conjunctivitis. I've been to the hospital and had my eyes opened. I'm recovering and will probably be cured soon.