Chapter 46, Zhong Brothers
During the holidays, the campus was deserted and quiet. Qingshi practiced diligently every day on Kung Fu, martial arts, formations, and alchemy. He occasionally took a walk by the lake, the lotus pond, and the hills, or took a boat to visit several small islands in Dalu Lake.
When the weather is bad, I don’t go out and cook a delicious meal at home. Apart from being lonely, my life is also nourishing.
At dusk that day, Qingshi practiced Qingfeng Finger and reached the state of great success. He was very happy and went out for a walk by the lotus pond. As soon as he walked to a long corridor, he met a person head-on. The person was fat-headed, big-eared and big-bellied. It was Zhong. Never leave the elders.
Qingshi didn't expect to meet him here, so he had to call out to Mr. Zhong and prepare to leave. However, Fatty Zhong seemed to have planned it. His belly bulged, and the narrow corridor was almost crowded. It was difficult to pass by sideways. difficulty.
"Classmate Qingshi," Fatty Zhong said with a smile, "Why don't you go home to celebrate the New Year during the holidays?"
"My home is too far away so I won't go back," Qingshi had to reply, "Why doesn't Elder Zhong go home to celebrate the New Year?"
"School is my home!" Fatty Zhong said with a smile, "Since we bumped into each other by chance today, Qingshi, please come and sit at my house. I happen to be researching a five-star elixir that you can take a look at and learn from. "
"Five-star elixir? How can I be qualified to learn five-star elixir at my level? I'd better ask the elders for advice later." How could Qingshi believe what Fatty Zhong said? Although he didn't know his purpose, he guessed that he probably had no good intentions, and he couldn't expose it now. As his master uncle, it is better to stay away from him.
"Let's go, I won't charge you tuition." Fatty Zhong grabbed Qingshi, pulled him up and left without any explanation.
Qingshi had no choice but to say okay, I'll go, you better let it go, but in his heart, he thought that one day I could reveal my identity and see how dare you, a fat guy like you, do this.
The two turned around the hill beside the lotus pond and soon came to a single-family residential area. There were about twenty single-family houses here, all three stories high. The houses were large, widely spaced, and the trees shaded the environment beautifully. The teaching area of the inner courtyard of Dan Dao is no more than two miles away. This is the residence of the elders of Dan Dao.
The house number where Fatty Zhong lived was No. 4 Danyu Road. After entering, Qingshi found a large living room with a pile of medicine boxes here and a pile of books there. Bundles of medicinal materials were stacked here and tools were placed there. There are a lot of bottles and cans on the wooden table, which are also crooked. This is not a home at all, but a messy warehouse and laboratory.
Fatty Zhong was still smiling and said to Qingshi: "Qingshi, since you're here, let's take a look at this five-star speed pill." He took out a pill recipe and handed it to Qingshi.
Qingshi took it and read it carefully. It turned out that this agility pill was made from the essence and blood of a sixth-level spiritual beast, the Wind Monkey. After taking it, monks can improve their agility and speed within a certain period of time. It can reach up to 50%, and can last up to two hours. Such elixirs are of course very good.
For bluestone, as long as you remember the type and weight of materials included in the elixir recipe, you can basically figure it out even if you don't know the specific refining method.
Although this elixir was complicated, Qingshi remembered it clearly after just reading it once. He thought to himself that Fatty Zhong had taken the wrong medicine. Why was he suddenly being so kind to him and giving him a very valuable five-star elixir for free? .
Fatty Zhong waited for Qingshi to finish reading, then said with a smile: "Remember the elixir recipe. Once you remember it, we will start refining it." After that, he started to sort out the medicinal materials.
Qingshi was greatly surprised. Fatty Zhong not only gave him the elixir recipe, but also taught him how to practice it on the spot. This was beyond Qingshi's expectation.
While Fatty Zhong was cutting the rhizome of a medicinal material, he said to Qingshi: "Don't be idle. Come on, process this black wonk fruit to remove the poison." As he said this, he threw over a black fruit the size of an apple.
In the Materia Medica, a basic course on medicinal materials in the college, there is no introduction to the black guinea fruit, but Qingshi is familiar with this fruit, and it is recorded in the Dahuang Jade Alchemy Sutra.
At that moment, Qingshi took a small pot, poured water in it and put it on a stove to boil the water and cook the fruits.
But Fatty Zhong said: "Do you want to boil it in water? No, no, even though the poison is gone, most of the medicinal properties will be lost. That's not allowed."
"Then what should we do?" Qingshi asked humbly.
"Well, let me test you. You can try it on your own. It only removes the poison and does not damage the medicinal properties." Fatty Zhong said without raising his head.
Qingshi thought for a long time, and finally said: "I really can't think of a way, so I'd like to ask the elders for advice."
"There is really no other way?" Fatty Zhong stared and said, "Think again."
Qingshi thought about it again and again, but still couldn't think of a way to remove the toxicity without damaging the properties of the medicine. He had to smile bitterly and said, "I really have no choice!"
"Tch~ Aren't you quite capable?" Fatty Zhong became excited, "You can even get rid of the old dean's poison. Why can't you do anything about this little poison?"
"It's easy to remove the poison. There are five methods at least," Qingshi said aggrievedly, "But it's difficult to completely avoid damaging the medicinal properties. Please give me some advice from the elders."
"Hey! If I want to know, I'll look for you..." Fatty Zhong spilled his words when he got excited. He quickly stopped and coughed twice, "Don't worry, don't worry, how did you detoxify the toxins in the old dean's body?" , such brilliant methods can’t solve such a small problem?”
"Ah~ So it's like this!" Qingshi nodded and stared at Fatty Zhong and said, "Why are you so kind? It turns out you were setting a trap for me!"
Qingshi finally understood the fat man's intention. It turned out that he couldn't detoxify the black watermelon fruit without losing its medicinal properties, so he wanted to ask Qingshi for help, but this old boy had a unique way of doing things.
"Classmate Qingshi," Fatty Zhong said awkwardly, "How can this be called a trick? As I said just now, it's just a test for you at most. If you think about it again, I know you must have a way. If you succeed, I still have something to do. Good for you."
"Last time you asked me to find students for you to teach, saying it was a benefit to me," Qingshi said, "I recruited so many students for you, what's the benefit to you?"
"Didn't I praise you?" Fatty Zhong said, "That time we met after class, I even praised you for 'well done'."
"Tch~" Qingshi sneered disdainfully.
"By the way, in this year-end review, only Lao Jin and I will give you the best ones." Fatty Zhong said, "Besides, I gave you all the prescriptions for the five-star quick speed pill. Isn't that considered a benefit?"
Qingshi thought about it, so he had to say: "Okay, you are right, but I really have no choice!"
"Alas!" Fatty Zhong finally spoke normally, "Yes, I have tried countless ways, but none of them work, but it doesn't make sense. If we can't remove the poison without losing the medicinal properties, then isn't this prescription a useless prescription? So, there must be a way, but we didn't find it. I thought you were a master at detoxifying poisons, but I didn't expect you to have no way. This is really..."
Fatty Zhong shook his head helplessly as he spoke, then rested his chin on his hands and thought hard.
Qingshi secretly thought that although Fatty Zhong was weird, he was actually not a bad person. He was just obsessed with studying alchemy and acted crazy. Qingshi couldn't help but feel a little less disgusted with it.
"That's right," Qingshi nodded, "There should be a way, but we didn't think of it. But haven't you thought of other ways?"
"Other ways?" Fatty Zhong couldn't think of anything at the moment.
"It's just a substitution!" Qingshi said, "If we don't use black guava, why not use other medicinal materials instead? It's just a supplementary material, not the main material."
"That's right!" Fatty Zhong said overjoyed, "You are such a genius!" As he said this, he took out a large and thick leather cheat book from nowhere, banged it on the table and started flipping through it.
In fact, although the substitution method is rarely used in alchemy, Fatty Zhong naturally knows it at the level of a sixth-level alchemist. It's just that this person is obsessed with alchemy, and there is something wrong in his mind. It's not Qingshi's idea. What a genius.
Fatty Zhong's level as a sixth-level alchemist was definitely high, not low. He came up with an alternative plan in a short while. Qingshi could only marvel when he saw it. There was no way he could have thought of it in such a short time.
Then Fatty Zhong started refining, while Qingshi helped and studied hard at the same time. After nearly three hours, Fatty Zhong finally refined three Speed Pills.
This guy didn't waste any time. He immediately threw one into his mouth and then went out and ran around the campus. When Qingshi saw his body trembling with fat, he was more than ten feet away. Judging from the explosive momentum, his cultivation level was at least as high as Above the high level of Jindan realm.
After a while, Fatty Zhong's proud laughter could be heard in the distance. It was obvious that the elixir was successfully refined.
Through this elixir refining, the relationship between Qingshi and Fatty Zhong became much closer. Although Qingshi had the recipe for the Quick Speed Pill, he was unable to refine it due to his insufficient cultivation, so he asked Fatty Zhong to buy a few.
Fatty Zhong agreed, and a few days later he helped Qingshi refine five speed pills, but the price was firm and he would never let go, asking Qingshi for a full 600 high-grade spiritual stones.
Qingshi took out the spiritual beast inner elixir that made him feel the abnormal movement of Qi and blood and asked Fatty Zhong to identify it, but Fatty Zhong didn't even recognize it.
Out of curiosity, Fatty Zhong took out a hammer and was about to smash the inner elixir to pieces and study it. Qingshi was shocked and quickly snatched it back.
Two days later, Zhong Buli took Qingshi to visit his eldest brother Zhong Buqi. Zhong Buqi was also a magician, but he was obsessed with the art of weapons.
Qingshi had attended Zhong Buqi's class and was the only outside student to attend his class this year, so Zhong Buqi had a favorable eye for Qingshi.
Although Qingshi is not as good as the two in the way of alchemy and weapon, his brain is much more flexible than these two, and he can often come up with some extraordinary insights. Most of these insights come from the magical knowledge of the Dahuang world in Qingshi's memory, which is Tianlong's. Something the world doesn’t have.
The two felt that Qingshi's whimsical ideas were incredible, and they often admired them.
Qingshi took the opportunity to ask Zhong Buqi for advice on Qi Dao techniques. Zhong Buqi was not conservative and answered all questions. However, his words were often long-winded and his words failed to convey the meaning, and there were obvious gaps in his thinking. Fortunately, Qingshi was wise and tactful, so he could basically do it. Understood.
Qingshi asked for advice on the art of weaponry but currently does not practice the art of refining weapons, just like most martial arts cultivators are not formation masters. Although they cannot practice the art of formation, they must learn the art of breaking the formation.
Qingshi communicates with the two of them every day or two, which is quite fruitful.
On this New Year's Day, Qingshi invited the two of them to have dinner at the East Ninth Building of Cuihu Road. He specially prepared several big dishes, and also brought out mountain peach stuffing and a thread of fire to entertain them. The two of them ate and drank without any courtesy. However, there was not even a word of praise for Qingshi's delicious food and wine. Qingshi wanted to bring up some food and drink topics, but the two of them were not interested.
After the two had eaten and drank, they said goodbye together, and Qingshi sent him out.
Zhong Buqi said: "I just saw your suspended roasted sheep array. It is very innovative and may be used for smelting minerals. I want to go back and study it." After that, he walked away.
Zhong Buli stroked his big belly and said, "I seem to have not eaten for a year. The food you made tastes good, but it's just too troublesome. Qingshi, I'm not telling you, you're wasting your time making these things." Ah, we are alchemists, even if we are really hungry, wouldn’t a pill solve the problem? Goodbye, bye!"
After Zhong Buli finished speaking, he ran away and caught up with his brother, leaving Qingshi standing there dumbfounded, dumbfounded.
Seeing the two brothers walking hand in hand, one was a genius in weaponry and the other was a genius in alchemy, plus he was a genius in formation, Qingshi suddenly had a genius idea in his mind, and couldn't help but get excited.
Qingshi returned to the waterfront terrace and took a big sip of Line of Fire. He raised his hand to take out the Flowing Fire Sword and wielded the Burning Sky Sword Technique. He was so excited that his understanding of this martial art actually reached a new level.
In the next half month, Qingshi's time other than practicing martial arts was spent testing his genius idea.
In the basement, brewing equipment occupies most of the space. Qingshi set up a fourth-level magic circle in the remaining space, and then arranged several more elaborate magic circles in the formation.
Some of these exquisite arrays have a control function, and some have a suspension function. There are some metal components engraved with array patterns arranged inside the array. The core thing is a metal vessel that can store elixir fire and delay its release.
These were designed by Qingshi and asked Zhong Buqi to build them, and he installed the power and control arrays himself.
Zhong Buqi was very interested in these weird designs and quickly forged them.
Qingshi placed this core device in the center of the profound formation, and then placed three alchemy furnaces of the same type around it, which together with other metal components formed a large, strange-looking machine.
Qingshi first sorted out three materials for refining the second-grade Qi Restoration Pill, put them into three pill furnaces respectively, and then spent two quarters of an hour to fuse his fire attribute Qi and wood attribute Zhen Qi into Dan Fire Infusion. Fill that core device.
Then Qingshi fully activated the formation, and several formations began to operate, and three alchemy furnaces were automatically operated at the same time to refine elixirs.
Qingshi observed closely and made adjustments at any time. After four or five tests, he succeeded in automatically refining the second-grade Qi-Returning Pill in three furnaces at the same time.
In this way, Qingshi successfully invented the world's first automatic alchemy machine. This is a device that integrates the three techniques of weapon, formation, and alchemy.
Qingshi believes that although this machine can only refine low-grade elixirs at present and cannot be completely separated from human supervision, after improvement and improvement, it will definitely become a machine that can automatically refine large quantities of elixirs, and can also refine higher-grade elixirs. of elixirs.
