In the middle of winter, it always feels very cold. She wears layers upon layers of clothing. Chen Xiangmei, who has a standard figure like a clothes rack, is as bloated as a ball. But sitting by the Bagua stove, she feels warm and cozy. The days are short and the nights are long.
The sun sets quickly, and the sky gradually darkens. The fire becomes brighter and brighter. During the day, the charcoal seems to be glowing red. Not only does it become red, but a layer of joy can be seen on the fiery red outer layer.
Yes, green flames.
On this day, Chen Xiangmei came to the Bagua furnace again, and poured a handful of herbs into the furnace door without any delay. Immediately, a blue-red flame appeared inside.
Lu Qingqiu said: "What you have to do now is to combine the power of these medicines into a pill. At this time, you can't be lazy anymore. If you continue to be obsessed with it, this medicine will be useless."
Chen Xiangmei took a deep breath and began to use steady pure green fire to slowly fuse the refined powders together.
"Controlling the heat is the most difficult step. Some medicinal materials are mutually exclusive. One mistake may ruin all the hard work."
Chen Xiangmei did not dare to be careless at all, and had already memorized some basic knowledge of refining elixirs. At this time, with Lu Qingqiu's guidance, although she was a little confused, she could barely cope with it. Another hour passed.
After that, some changes began to occur in the Bagua furnace. A breath of elixir spread out from the furnace. The smell of the elixir was very strong, and it made me feel at ease when I smelled it.
With a sound of "clang", the furnace door opened. As a strong breath of elixir gradually spread, wrapped in a faint blue flame, a perfectly round golden elixir as thick as a thumb appeared.
, in the calm and pure green fire.
Lu Qingqiu held the jade gourd bottle in his hand, put the Seven Return Pills in, and came to Lin Yiqing's bedside.
At this moment, Lin Yiqing was still asleep, as if he would sleep indefinitely.
Lu Qingqiu opened the cork of the jade gourd bottle, poured out the golden elixir, and slowly stuffed it into Lin Yiqing's mouth. He also gently massaged his chest to make it easier to swallow.
Chen Xiangmei also fetched warm water to help swallowing.
Lin Yiqing swallowed the Seven Return Pills and still fell into a deep sleep without any reaction.
Chen Xiangmei stared, waiting for a miracle to happen.
Lu Qingqiu smiled slightly and said: "Sickness comes like a mountain falling, and sickness goes away like a thread. If he jumps up now, it won't be called resurrected. That's called corpse fraud."
Chen Xiangmei trembled all over and stopped staring.
For several days, there was no sound. Chen Xiangmei helped Zhan Zhi and Lu Qingqiu pick up herbs and clean the incense burner. That day, a team member suddenly came to say that Lin Yiqing was in trouble. Chen Xiangmei's heart skipped a beat and she hurried to the hospital bed.
At first glance, Lin Yiqing was shocked. Lin Yiqing was on the hospital bed. The thin scabs formed by the venom of giant toads all over his body were cracked and peeled off. The whole person seemed to have emerged from the cocoon like a pupa and a butterfly, completely changing his appearance.
.In the elegant mist-like night starlight, lips as graceful as cherry blossoms, and skin as delicate as porcelain. She closed her eyes quietly and slightly, like a beautiful young man sleeping peacefully in myths and legends. Lin Yiqing was originally handsome, but somehow,
Her face turned blue and she looked a little evil and sickly. Now her illness was gone and she looked like a girl with a pink face. Chen Xiangmei was stunned on the spot, not knowing that what she saw before her eyes was really an illusion.
Here, Lin Yiqing was reborn and recovered from a serious illness. Qin Xiao and Zuo Yintang were also greatly relieved. Time was not waiting for us, and they planned to dig a mine in the Centipede Mountains immediately. But when they thought of the group of giant frogs in the grotto pool, their stomachs turned sour.
, bursts of headache.
Zhan Zhanzhi was so confident that he took the initiative and borrowed Lu Qingqiu's Bagua Dan furnace to refine the medicine. However, Lu Qingqiu was refining a panacea to save people, while Zhan Zhi was refining an intestinal poison to deal with giant frogs.
That's all.
Chen Xiangmei still acted as a Taoist boy. Seeing that Qin Xiao was treating Zhan Zhanzhi and Lu Qingqiu as honored guests, she did not dare to neglect. She put the herbs prepared by Zha Zhanzhi into the Bagua furnace. Before she could control the heat, the flames jumped up. In a blink of an eye,
, a handful of herbs turned into pitch-black ashes. The medicine that Zhan Zhicai used was completely at the opposite extremes from Lu Qingqiu's. Chen Xiangmei looked at her mistake and was so embarrassed that she didn't know what to do.
"Continue." Zhan Zhanzhi sat cross-legged on the couch and said calmly.
Chen Xiangmei also got angry and wiped the sweat from her forehead. After burning several handfuls of herbs persistently, she finally managed to figure out the adaptability point of the heat.
After checking out a little bit of white powder extracted from Zhizhi, he nodded slightly and said with approval: "Not bad, not bad, that's it. Captain Chen, please take a rest first."
As soon as she finished speaking, Chen Xiangmei's shoulders, which were trying to keep her balance, suddenly collapsed. She had just been refining elixirs with Lu Qingqiu, and then turned to refining poisons with Zhan Zhanzhi. This change was too big, and there was not even a transition.
?Chen Xiangmei threw away her bamboo fan, and her body fell softly to the ground as if she had lost all strength. She was panting slightly, her chest was rising and falling, and her whole body was sore and numb.
"Meditating and adjusting your breath at this time is of great benefit to your cultivation." Zhan Zhanzhi said lightly after glancing at Chen Xiangmei, who was sitting on the ground like soft mud.
After a moment of battle between laziness and persistence in her heart, Chen Xiangmei had no choice but to sit up with great reluctance, use her trembling hands to make breathing movements, and then slowly closed her eyes. Seeing this, Zhan Zhixiao
She smiled and shifted her gaze to the jade gourd flat placed in front of the Bagua furnace. The bottle was filled with a little bit of light white powder that was refined. These were the results of Chen Xiangmei's hard work throughout the day.
After Chen Xiangmei closed her eyes and meditated for nearly an hour. Strangely enough, the strength she had exhausted due to the alchemy process finally gradually recovered. And it seemed to be much fuller than before. She slowly opened her eyes, feeling the soreness all over her body.
The numbness and weakness had mostly dissipated. He twisted his neck and breathed a sigh of relief.
"Have you cultivated yourself? Let's continue." He opened his eyes and looked at Chen Xiangmei who had recovered as before, Zhan Zhanzhi said with a smile.
For seven consecutive days, Zhanzhi refined a total of 108 black pills.
Chen Xiangmei couldn't help but asked: "Master Zha, didn't you say there are only seventy-two toads? What are you doing making one hundred and eight pills?"
Lu Qingqiu on the side said with a smile: "Because these seventy-two toads still have friends."
Chen Xiangmei said: "Partner? What is the toad's partner? The frog prince or the white swan?"
Zhan Zhanzhi and Lu Qingqiu burst out laughing after hearing this.
The successful refining of Zhanzhi's intestinal poison indicates that a more intense human-frog war is about to take place. Qin Xiao and Zuo Yintang did not dare to take it lightly. Just hearing that the giant frog swallowed Fan Lao Chou alive made them panic.
Nausea. Facing a swarm of toads would be like a nightmare just thinking about it. But the selected team members are gearing up and eager to try.
As soon as the day came and it was still dark, Qin Xiao, Zuo Yintang and Chen Xiangmei led the team and met the martial artist Ouyang Hai, Yizhang Hongjia Saihua, Taoist priest Zhazhanzhi and Lu Qingqiu on the rural dirt road leading to the Centipede Mountains.
Everyone was highly motivated and held back their bad breath, wanting to spread their bad breath on these toads. Almost without saying anything, just like a death squad, they embarked on the journey to the Centipede Mountains without hesitation.
After everyone had a meal at the Return Laixi Station, they were full of wine and food, and replenished their spirits before heading towards the Centipede Mountains. When they arrived at the entrance of the mine with waterfalls and flowing springs, everyone took out torches and lit them, and followed behind Zhan Zhanzhi and Lu Qingqiu.
Hold the torch high and explore inside.
Before we entered the central area of the cave, we heard the sound of frogs chirping.