Shi Yaotang is not the only pharmacy in Wuyun City.
Not only is it just one drug store, in addition to Shi Yaotang, there are many other pharmacies, large and small, and even most of them, including small drug stores, sell more types of medicines than Shi Yaotang.
There are only three categories and nine types of medicines regularly sold in Shiyaotang.
In other pharmacies, dozens of types are rare, but hundreds of types are also common.
However, because of its relationship with the Ten Thousand Medicine Sect, the effects of the nine medicines in Shi Yaotang are by no means comparable to those of other similar medicines. Therefore, the reputation and status of Shi Yaotang in the city are far superior to those of other large and small drug stores.
comparable.
Although it only sells nine kinds of medicines all year round!
Likewise, because of this, it leaves enough room for other pharmacies to survive.
In Wuyun City, there are five main streets, three horizontal and two vertical, named after Baiyun Street, Qingyun Street, Ziyun Street, Liuyun Street and Zhiyun Street respectively.
Shi Yaotang is located at the intersection of Qingyun Street and Zhiyun Street. In terms of earthly terms, it is a prime location.
After his study with Wen Donghua came to an end, and after deciding to become a native of Wuyun City, Ye Xiaoye started his preliminary wandering around Wuyun City with Shi Yaotang as the center point and Qingyun Street and Zhiyun Street as the horizontal and vertical coordinates.
Well, it's not a bad idea to call it exploration.
Then he discovered that there were so many drug stores!
On these two streets alone, there are as many as seventeen other drug stores, large and small!
Do people here often get sick?
no!
Of those seventeen pharmacies, eight specialize in nourishing medicines, three specialize in medicines for spiritual practice, and the remaining six are a mixed bag of medicines, including medicines for injuries and diseases.
Ye Xiaoye took a leisurely look at these medicine shops one by one, paying special attention to the three that specialized in medicine for cultivation.
Because they may be competitors in the future.
He planned to start with medicine for practice. After all, this was an old profession within an old profession.
Of course, the reason why Ye Xiaoye started with medicine for cultivation was because he wanted to integrate into the circle of cultivators in Wuyun City, and then circle some cultivators as experimental subjects.
There are three kinds of medicines for practice in Shiyaotang, namely Ganqi Pills, Juqi Pills and Ningqi Pills.
In the medicine shops that Ye Xiaoye inspected, their practice medicines were basically developed around the level of "Condensing Yuan Realm", starting from the stage of sensing spiritual energy when the practitioner first started.
There are very few that involve the entrance realm.
There are even fewer involving the enlightenment realm, basically none.
The reason why I say there are basically none is because there are still some, but they all exist as "store treasures" and their display significance is far greater than the actual sales.
From this point, Ye Xiaoye also roughly defined the levels of cultivators in Wuyun City.
That is Ning Yuan, Xuan Guan, Qiao Qiao, mainly Ning Yuan, and includes a large number of people who dabble in cultivation but have not even entered the threshold of Ning Yuan realm.
And in the entire city, it is very likely that there are no cultivators above the True First Realm.
However, regarding this point, Ye Xiaoye is currently limited to making a preliminary determination as to what the specific situation is. He cannot write this article yet, "A Discussion on the Composition and Levels of Cultivators in Wuyun City".
There is no need to do it now, just get in touch slowly.
This is the basic ecological circle of spiritual civilization in this world. Ye Xiaoye decided to get in touch with it and understand it well.
And entering the Jiujiang Prefecture where he is now as a medicine god (main) + cultivator (auxiliary), Ye Xiaoye thinks this is a good route.
Once the strategy is set, the next step is to take action.
Ye Xiaoye spent several days walking in the medicine garden.
In fact, for the more than twenty kinds of herbs in the medicine garden, each leaf and leaflet has been known for a long time, and now, he is choosing among those twenty kinds, and selects the first batch of herbs as the first batch.
Preparation of various spiritual medicines.
Use local materials and use them. This is a large-scale basic operation.
In the end, Ye Xiaoye identified seventeen kinds of medicinal herbs.
After the delineation of the medicinal herbs was completed, basically, these medicinal herbs were also "cut out" in his mind.
How to match them, what functions each plays, and then combine them together to form the potion. The template is out, and the next step is just trial production and fine-tuning.
Ye Xiaoye started making medicine, and the one who was most looking forward to it was Wen Donghua.
Ye Xiaoye was brought in by him.
In terms of medicinal herbs, it can be said that he has taught Ye Xiaoye almost everything he knows.
From the first day, Ye Xiaoye's photographic memory gave him memories that may last a lifetime, not to mention Ye Xiaoye's cultivation level.
After a few months, Wen Donghua became Ye Xiaoye's pharmacy teacher rather than his "teaching teacher", guiding Ye Xiaoye to get started. At the same time, Ye Xiaoye's guidance on his practice was really helpful.
So what do some teachers mean?
Therefore, overall, who is the teacher and who is the disciple between these two people is not what it seems on the surface.
So, which one is more important, medicine or spiritual practice?
Even in the Ten Thousand Medicine Sect.
The answer is, practice!
Therefore, it is easy to understand that as time went by, Wen Donghua became more and more respectful to Ye Xiaoye.
At this time, when he learned that Ye Xiaoye was going to start making medicine, Wen Donghua went into the battle personally and took up the position of assistant.
Ye Xiaoye also followed him.
There's nothing wrong with having an assistant.
First, the seventeen kinds of medicinal herbs are treated separately.
There is no problem with this step.
Before Ye Xiaoye came to Shi Yaotang, most of the regular herbal processing in Shi Yaotang was done by Wen Donghua's disciples. Wen Donghua was only responsible for guidance. In many cases, he didn't even need guidance, and his own disciples made arrangements.
But Wen Donghua still practices every day.
This old pharmacist is quite diligent, both in his spiritual practice and in the practice and study of medicine.
At this time, Ye Xiaoye handled these herbs on his behalf, and his movements were extremely skillful.
When working with the first herb, there was no problem.
When dealing with the second herb, no problem.
When dealing with the third herb, there was still no problem.
At this point, Wen Donghua had already mentally mapped out several possible preparation directions for Ye Xiaoye.
But when it came to the fourth and fifth cases, Wen Donghua began to murmur in his heart.
It's like one cook helping another cook prepare the ingredients.
The first ingredient he dealt with was chicken.
There are many ways to cook chicken, so it's impossible to tell what the cook is going to do based on this condition alone.
Then the second ingredient he dealt with was mushrooms.
Yeah, got it, chicken stewed with mushrooms.
This is the most possible combination or direction!
Then the third ingredient is green vegetables.
When the chicken is stewed with mushrooms, do you add some green vegetables when it is about to come out of the pot? Or should you use the green vegetables to make the soup at the beginning and use this vegetable soup to cook the chicken or just blanch the chicken?
In other words, instead of making chicken stewed with mushrooms, we should stir-fry vegetables, mushrooms and chicken into cubes?
By this time, the cook responsible for handling the ingredients already had some doubts.
Next, what other side dishes or spices should be prepared?
But no.
Next, the fourth "ingredient" to be dealt with is lime.
Then the fifth type is "sand".
The sixth type is "beeswax".
…
Wen Donghua is now encountering such a problem.
When dealing with the first one, two or three herbs, he delineated the medicinal scope of Ye Xiaoye and felt that he had made a good judgment.
After processing one or two more, it should be almost straightforward to determine.
But the fact is that when he really dealt with the fifth type, he had a lot of questions in his mind!
"I am also a great chef, but I have never seen this recipe like yours!"
“Not only have I never seen it, I’ve never even heard of it!”
“Not only have I never heard of it, I can’t even read it!”
Then.
The sixth kind, the seventh kind, the eighth kind.
By this time, many of Wen Donghua's questions not only had not been resolved, but had been expanded infinitely!
Because even if he racked his brains, he couldn't put these eight medicinal materials together, let alone imagine what effect the medicine prepared by putting these medicinal materials together would have.
It is not difficult to mix two or three kinds of these medicinal materials together. It is also possible to mix three or five kinds of medicinal materials together, but these eight kinds at this time...
"You are in the North Sea, and I am in the South Sea, but the wind, horse and cow are incompatible with each other."
Wen Donghua didn't know this sentence, but now his mind was full of thoughts like this.
However, this is just the beginning!
After eight kinds, nine kinds, ten kinds, eleven, twenty, thirty-four...
Until seventeen kinds!
By this time, Wen Donghua was already completely confused. He couldn't bear it anymore and finally asked: "Master Ye, these medicinal materials...are you planning to prepare several medicines at the same time?"
I knew you were going to ask that.
It's rare that I can bear to ask until now. It's good to be patient.
But have you ever heard of any novice who prepares several kinds of medicines as soon as he gets started?
That doesn't make sense.
Aren’t they all learned slowly one by one?
Ye Xiaoye shook his head, "Mr. Wen, I will configure one."