Zuo Feng's casual guess hit the nail on the head. The four or five houses around the old man's hut were indeed no longer inhabited, and the reason had a lot to do with the mysterious Yaoxun.
.But these things happened before Zuo Feng came to Luan City, so he just felt strange but could not figure out the reason.
Zuo Feng didn't want to spend more time thinking about this. He was now focused on refining the Juli Powder. Facing the medicine furnace in front of him, Zuo Feng fell into deep thought. High-end medicine powder like Juli Powder
He had never refined it before, so he didn't dare to do it rashly.
Zuo Feng thought about the prescription many times in his mind. Several of the problems were discovered when he was watching it before. After thinking about it, the problems not only did not decrease but also increased.
First of all, the prescription of this Juli Powder contains a very clear description of the order of refining the medicinal materials, which has never appeared in some of the prescriptions he has come across. Secondly, there are some extremely special ways of handling the medicine.
Requirements. These were all problems he discovered right after he got the prescription. It was just the impatience on Yao Xun's face at that time that made Zuo Feng keep the problems in his heart.
And when he sat down to think about the prescription carefully, he discovered an even weirder problem, that is, the medicinal properties of several of the medicinal materials were actually conflicting. The medicinal materials themselves have their own unique properties, which can be divided into cold and hot, and warm and cool.
, going deeper there are Yin and Yang and the attributes of the Five Elements.
Generally speaking, an alchemist with a superficial knowledge can distinguish between cold and heat. A more advanced alchemist can sort out warm and hot. Only a more advanced alchemist can master yin and yang and the five elements. Although Zuo Feng's alchemy skills are only at the elementary level, they are only so-so.
, but he learned a lot from Zhuang Yu in terms of understanding the properties of medicine, and now he can begin to understand yin and yang.
This is why when he made the medicine for the first time last night, Yao Xun looked at him in surprise and sorted the medicinal materials according to their properties.
Zuo Feng thought about the prescription many times, but still couldn't figure out the reason, so he looked up at Yaoxun again in desperation. But Yaoxun had already drank a small drink by himself, and was still smacking his lips.
Seeing that Yao Xun had no intention of explaining himself, Zuo Feng had no choice but to lower his head and study again.
Zuo Feng, who was thinking about it, suddenly cast his eyes on the package of medicinal materials, and then quickly unfolded the package gently. After a while, Zuo Feng's face showed confusion again, because the package in front of him contained
There are actually more medicinal materials than those recorded in the prescription.
This time, Zuo Feng didn't even raise his head to look at Yaoxun. Instead, he started to sort out the mixed medicinal materials and put them into categories according to the medicinal properties he knew. Yaoxun, who was savoring the wine in his mouth, did not look back.
Look, a smile gradually appeared on his face.
After placing the medicinal materials, Zuo Feng tried to start refining according to the records in the prescription. Adding flame crystals to preheat the medicine furnace, these steps were already elementary and elementary, but Zuo Feng was still meticulous.
When the temperature of the furnace fire reached a certain level, Zuo Feng began to put medicine into the medicine furnace. Because he had never refined Juli Powder, he was very careful and slow when adding medicine.
But soon after the third herb was put into the medicine furnace, the liquid in the furnace began to change. The liquid in the red flame, which was originally peaceful, began to interact with each other shortly after the newly added herbs entered.
Suddenly, an unstable situation occurred, and then there was a slight explosion, and every drop of liquid medicine was completely destroyed with the explosion.
Zuo Feng looked at the medicine furnace that was gradually cooling down with a confused expression, and then looked at the pile of residue at the bottom of the furnace. At this time, some of the medicine liquid was still exploding.
He frowned deeply. Although this was the first time he discovered this situation, it was obviously caused by mutually exclusive properties of the medicine. His first thought was that the prescription the old man gave him was fake. But after thinking about it carefully, he realized
I don't think so. These medicinal materials basically have the effect of increasing strength. If they are refined according to normal conditions, they should be Juli Powder.
Taking a deep breath, Zuo Feng thought to himself, 'It's too early to give up now. Since the medicinal materials are not yours, there's no need to think too much about anything else. Let's do our best first.'
Thinking of this, Zuo Feng grabbed the medicine stove and poured out the residue, and then started the preheating process again. This time Zuo Feng carefully refined the medicinal materials one by one, and did not refine the medicinal materials as before.
The good liquid remains in the furnace.
Because all the medicinal liquids did not exist in the medicine furnace at the same time during the training process, there were no other changes. When Zuo Feng was refining the medicinal materials according to his previous method, the old man's mouth was slightly raised, revealing a trace of
A look of ridicule.
Soon Zuo Feng had refined all the required medicinal materials, and then came the steps of fusion. But Zuo Feng learned the lesson well this time. For each fusion, he poured a few drops of each refined medicinal solution.
, and then fuse them together in the medicine furnace.
"Bang...bang..."
Low explosion sounds continued to be heard in the medicine furnace, and with these explosions, the medicine liquid also failed to fuse again and again. When all the medicine liquid extracted previously was used up, Zuo Feng also wanted to curse.
impulse.
‘This old man is not playing tricks on me, is he? I have constantly changed the order of fusion, and even fused the medicinal liquids with hedging properties separately, but it still failed.’
Just when Zuo Feng's anger could no longer be suppressed, he suddenly remembered what Zhuang Yu once said, "The properties of medicinal materials represent a rule. This is not only the rule of medicine, but also represents the rules of heaven and earth."
A kind of rule. Rules are immutable, but rules are ever-changing and elusive. Only by mastering the rules can one become a high-level alchemist."
Remembering what Zhuang Yu once said, Zuo Feng also fell into deep thought. He didn't doubt the old man's prescription at first, but now he began to have doubts, and he also remembered some of the extra medicinal materials.
At this moment, a flash of inspiration flashed in his mind, and all the medicinal materials in the package appeared in his mind. They were arranged according to the refining order recorded in the prescription. Then those medicinal materials that were mutually exclusive were placed in Zuo Feng's
It was kept alone in his mind, and then he began to compare it with the extra medicinal materials.
Zuo Feng sat there blankly like a wood carving and clay sculpture, but Yao Xun seemed to have noticed something. He turned his head slightly and glanced at Zuo Feng with his peripheral vision, nodded meaningfully, and then turned around.
Keep drinking.
After an unknown amount of time passed, Zuo Feng suddenly opened his eyes and emptied everything in the medicine furnace without any hesitation. Then he put in the flame crystal to preheat the medicine furnace and started the refining process. This time Zuo Feng's
The movements are much faster than before, but the herbs are put in one by one in an orderly manner.
This time it was much smoother than before. All the extracted liquids stayed in the medicine furnace, but there was no instability. Soon the final fusion step was entered, and Zuo Feng’s face softened.
A hint of joy slowly emerged.
But just as his smile appeared, the merging liquid in the medicine furnace suddenly began to ripple violently, and the liquids burned like flaming crystals. Zuo Feng opened his mouth in shock, but he couldn't help it at all.
Stopping the burning of the liquid medicine, a huge flame soon rose up inside the medicine furnace.
Zuo Feng watched helplessly as the fruits of his hard work turned into a ball of flame until the liquid medicine was completely burned out.
It took Zuo Feng a while to come back to his senses, and turned around angrily. He was about to blurt out the curse words in his chest, but found that Yaoxun was standing behind him with a smile but not a smile. He looked like he was not worried about these accidents at all.
As expected.
"Boy, you are so impatient. What? Looking at this posture, you still want to try your skills with me, the old man?"
Seeing Zuo Feng's clenched fists, the old man also said with a cynical look. Zuo Feng finally calmed down and tried his skills with the old man in front of him. Even if he inspired the beast soul to go berserk, he probably wouldn't have any chance of winning. Moreover,
He didn't see any intention of teasing him in the old man's eyes, but there was a hint of kindness in the mocking look on his face.
"Hey, go aside and take a good look."
Seeing that Zuo Feng had calmed down, the old man lightly kicked Zuo Feng with his foot and said slowly. The old man's toes kicked Zuo Feng's right hip, but there was no pain at all, and his body felt light and relaxed.
Moved a few feet to the side.
The old man sat down without any nonsense, and with a flick of his finger, a line of fire rushed into the stove. Immediately afterwards, the flames in the stove began to boil. Although the flames looked extremely violent,
However, Zuo Feng felt that the center part of the flame was extremely stable.
The old man casually picked up the medicinal materials beside him and threw them into the medicine furnace. Zuo Feng could clearly see that the medicinal materials the old man grabbed were the same medicinal materials that he had refined to the last stage. It seemed that the old man had deliberately prepared the medicinal materials.
Some drug names are spelled incorrectly.
Zuo Feng had no time to think about anything else, because he had been shocked by the old man's medicine refining skills. After the old man put the medicinal materials into the medicine furnace, he reached out and patted the furnace wall gently. Those flames seemed to
It has a spiritual appearance and slowly rotates in the medicine furnace.
Those medicinal materials are quickly calcined and extracted in the violent flames on the periphery, and as long as a pure medicinal liquid is extracted, it will be immediately sent to a stable position in the center of the flame.
As the surrounding flames continued to burn, the dozens of medicinal herbs were also refined, and dozens of drops of pure medicinal liquid were floating and wandering in the center of the medicine furnace. Seeing this scene, Yaoxun smiled slightly and raised his wine
He took a sip from the pot and then tapped the stove wall slowly.
Zuo Feng discovered that he had actually sent a trace of spiritual power into the medicine furnace, and instantly wrapped dozens of drops of medicine in it, isolating it from the flames outside.