There is a wooden board like a chopping board placed on the wooden table in front of Yanxuan. The wooden board is extremely clean. There is also a spiritual grass on it, which is the most common Tianxinlan. This spiritual grass has been washed clean, and even the pale The white fluffy grass roots are also carefully washed with water, leaving them spotless.
In her right hand, she held a sharp knife that was as long as one finger. With her left hand, she gently pressed down on the Tianxinlan plant. She looked at the intersection of the stems, leaves and roots of the spirit grass, and then she cut it down, "Cracking". Cut the tibia into two sections at once.
The stems and leaves are placed on a plate, and there is already a small pile of Tianxinlan with the roots cut off. She placed the cut grass roots on another plate, naturally a small pile.
This Tian Xin Lan is a low-level spiritual grass. The stems and leaves have different medicinal effects from the roots. Therefore, this spiritual grass must be cut before use and then used as medicine separately. This step is called "separating the grass". Before dividing the grass, it is necessary to Cleaning the dust and soil from the spiritual grass is called "washing the grass".
Yanxuan has become proficient in washing grass and dividing grass. Washing grass should be simpler. The main thing is not to damage the spiritual grass when washing grass. Separating grass is much more difficult. Then you must keep all the "Collection of Spiritual Herbs" in your heart. Okay, in addition, when the senior sister teaches, you must listen carefully and watch carefully what the senior sister does.
The simplest spiritual herbs, such as this Tianxinlan, only need to separate the roots from the stems and leaves. The roots, stems, leaves, flowers and fruits of advanced spiritual herbs have different medicinal effects and cannot be mixed. I heard that there are some spiritual herbs. The leaves from top to bottom must be carefully distinguished, and the medicinal effects are also different. Then the eyesight and knowledge of the person who refines and prepares the elixir must be tested. If you make a mistake, the elixir will be useless even if it is made.
Yanxuan was the junior sister who was most admired by Senior Sister Min. Senior Sister Min had watched her wash and separate grass for some time, and later she tested her with different herbs. As a result, Senior Sister Min was very satisfied with Yanxuan's performance, so she He taught her some pharmaceutical methods in advance.
Yanxuan took a clean stone pot, put the Tian Xin Lan with the roots cut off, and then used a stone pestle to mash the Tian Xin Lan carefully until the Tian Xin Lan in the stone pot was pounded into a paste, then used a silver Use a small spoon to scoop out the mushy Tianxinlan and put it into a clean white silk bag, and tie the string at the mouth of the bag tightly. Then he put it on a press platform and pulled a string next to it. A heavy object slowly pressed on the press platform. When the bag was pressed, dark green grass juice was squeezed out and flowed in through a hole. In a bowl that had been placed below.
When the grass juice flows down, it first passes through a few pieces of fine white gauze placed on the bowl. The white gauze filters out all the remaining spiritual grass residues in the grass juice. When the pressure platform stops flowing out the grass juice, Yanxuan will Remove the white gauze from the mouth of the bowl, hold it up to your nose and sniff it carefully, nod slightly, then cover the bowl with a piece of clean white gauze, and take a pen on top of the white gauze. After writing a few words, he placed the whole bowl on a high place and let it rest.
After the grass juice has been left to stand for a period of time, it loses water and becomes viscous, and then it becomes the main raw material for preparing various medicines. During the preparation, the viscous juices of different spiritual herbs are mixed together and kneaded together according to their different medicinal effects. Then divide it into pills.
Qixia Mountain is famous for its alchemy skills, both within the sect and in the entire cultivation world. The monks of Qixia Mountain believe that although this statement is correct, it is incomplete. In their opinion, Qixia Mountain should be famous for its elixir skills.
Pills and medicines should be discussed separately.
Pills are generally made from various spiritual herbs placed in a pill furnace through fire refining techniques. They are generally called pills and are beneficial to the monk's own cultivation. For example, Qian Chao and others now take three pills per month. "Yuanyuan Dan" is a low-level fire-refined elixir that can help Qi-refining disciples increase their spiritual power after taking it. In addition, there are some higher-level elixirs that, although they have little effect on the growth of spiritual power, are effective for certain methods. For example, the fire control technique developed by Qixia Mountain has a proprietary version of "Chixia Dan". Later, practicing the fire control technique can achieve twice the result with half the effort, so this "Red Cloud Pill" is also very popular among disciples in Qixia Mountain.
Medicines are different from elixirs. Medicines in the spiritual world are similar to medicines in the mortal world, and they all have healing effects. Perhaps real immortals are invulnerable to metal and stone, water and fire, but these immortal cultivators in the spiritual world are not. Not to mention the distant disciples in the sect who go to Jingshiyuan to do their work every day. It is inevitable that you will encounter those monster beasts and birds wandering in the wild outside. After a fight, you will inevitably be injured by those monster beasts, whether it is skin injuries, muscle injuries, or bites from poisonous monster beasts. These are all Need to be treated with medicine. Compared with ordinary people in the world, people who practice medicine have a much longer lifespan, but they will not get sick, but they are unavoidable.
The ancestor of Qian Chao's family is an example. He encountered a powerful monster when he went out. Although he saved his life after a fight, his Dantian, the foundation of spiritual practice, was seriously injured. In the end, he had to leave the sect and return sadly. Qian family.
Therefore, medicine is as important as elixirs to monks. Several places selling elixirs in Qixia Mountain are crowded with monks almost every day. No one wants to be without medicine when an accident occurs outside. That would be terrible. .
Generally speaking, Qixia Mountain disciples like Yanxuan who practice the art of elixirs learn to make medicine first and then to refine elixirs. There is no other explanation for this, just because alchemy still requires very strict fire control skills from its disciples, while medicine only requires disciples to know the nature of herbs, be familiar with pharmacology, and be patient and careful. Therefore, in addition to learning to prepare various elixirs these days, Yanxuan has been painstakingly practicing the art of controlling fire.
The reason is that he can start making alchemy as soon as possible.
On the grid where Yanxuan placed the spiritual grass juice, there was also a small round plaque woven with spiritual bamboo, covered with a thin white gauze. It was the first batch prepared by Yanxuan himself a few days ago. The elixir is called "Yuzhi Pill". If a monk suffers minor trauma, he can take this pill or crush it and apply it to the wound, which will have miraculous effects.
The elixir that had just been prepared had to rest for a few days. Yanxuan took off the small bamboo plaque, peeled off the white gauze, looked at the pills that had turned brown, squeezed them gently, and picked them up to smell them. Sniff, she felt that it should be fine, but she was still worried. She took out a pill, and then took out a shiny sharp knife with one finger, held the pill on the case, and gently cut off the very bottom with the knife. Take a small one, then use your fingers to press the little bit of medicine on your fingertips and put it into your mouth, taste the properties of the medicine carefully, and after a while, gently spit out the little bit of medicine on the tip of your tongue.
That’s it, Yanxuan said to himself after tasting it.
This step is to taste the medicine. You only need that little bit to taste the properties of the prepared medicine. This is also a must for disciples practicing alchemy in Qixia Mountain. In addition, there is Taste Dan. Regardless of the medicinal properties of fire-refined elixirs, you have to taste Taste Dan. Yanxuan has not learned yet about Taste Dan.
Taking out a jade bottle, Yanxuan carefully put the pills in the small bamboo plaque into the bottle one by one. After twenty pills, the small bottle was full. There were two pills on the bamboo plaque. The remaining two The pills were Yanxuan's own. She took out a small wooden box from the storage bag, put the remaining two pills in and put them away.
Holding the jade bottle, Yanxuan walked out of Baicao Courtyard and walked into an adjacent building called "Qixiang Pavilion".
There were no furnishings on the first floor of Qixiang Pavilion. There were a few desks in the back and several young monks sitting behind them. There were people lining up in front of each desk. Yanxuan saw a senior sister sitting behind one desk. The beautiful female nun stood waiting in the queue.
Yanxuan lined up, and the people in front stayed in front of the desk for a while and then left. However, when he was about to reach Yanxuan, he heard a cold voice behind the desk saying to a disciple of Qixia Mountain in front of the desk: "Low-level, low-grade"
Yanxuan didn't know who the disciple in front of the desk was, but his voice sounded a little anxious and unwilling.
"Low grade? Senior Sister Mei, you can't be mistaken, how about you try two more pills."
Then there was no sound, and after a while the cold voice sounded again.
"It is unmistakable that it is low-grade and low-grade. There are still a few that are not high-grade. If you don't believe me, Junior Brother Xing, you can go to Senior Sister Bai Yue over there and ask again."
Senior Sister Bai Yue Yanxuan had heard that she was a foundation-building female cultivator on the first floor of Qixiang Pavilion. However, the disciple named Xing seemed to have no intention of looking for Bai Yue again, so he had to pack his pills and leave. . Yanxuan then saw a young male cultivator who seemed to be a few years older than him passing by glumly.
When it was Yanxuan's turn to come to the desk, he discovered that behind the desk was a stunning female cultivator who was a few years older than him and about the same age as his senior sister Min. He suddenly thought of the previous The man called this woman "Senior Sister Mei". Could it be that this woman was the same Senior Sister Mei who together with Senior Sister Min were called "Sister Mei and Min"? Her facial features seem to be more beautiful than Senior Sister Min's, but she has a cold and proud look that makes people not get close to her. She is far less friendly and peaceful than Senior Sister Min.
"Senior Sister Mei" Yanxuan sat down on the futon in front of the desk, and placed his master's jade pendant and the jade pendant containing pills on the desk together.
Senior Sister Mei stared at Yanxuan and saw a charming little girl sitting opposite her. Although she had never seen her before, she had some affection for Mr. Yanxuan's appearance.
After looking at the jade plaque, Senior Sister Min asked, "Yanxuan? Junior Sister Yan, is this your first time here?"
"Yes" Yanxuan replied.
Senior Sister Mei nodded, then poured all the pills in Yanxuan's jade bottle into a jade plate on the desk, casually put the twenty pills in pairs with her hands, looked at Yanxuan, and said : "The first time you check, you have to be more careful. This is the rule."
Yanxuan nodded.
I saw Senior Sister Mei wipe a small knife carefully with a piece of clean fine gauze, then take one of every two pills, gently cut off a very small point, just like Yanxuan did before, press it with your fingers before putting it into your mouth. After tasting it, he spit it out, rinsed his mouth with the tea on the table, and then checked the pills below.
After Senior Sister Mei finished checking everything, she rinsed her mouth with tea and wiped the corners of her mouth with a handkerchief. When she looked at Yanxuan again, her eyes were a little surprised.
"It's rare, Junior Sister Yan, she passed all the exams for the first time."
As she said this, Senior Sister Mei took a small bamboo sign from one side, took up a pen and wrote the words "lower level middle grade" on it, and handed the small bamboo sign to Yanxuan after writing.
"Hey, this is for you, you can give it to Baicaoyuan."
"Thank you, Senior Sister Mei." Yanxuan said his thanks and happily took the small bamboo sign.
After this small bamboo sign is returned to Baicao Yuan, it will be hung in Yanxuan's name. Although the lower-middle-grade elixir is only qualified, the next time Yanxuan receives the elixir from Baicao Yuan, one of the principals of Baicao Yuan will After checking Yanxuan's bamboo card, people can safely give her the spiritual grass.
According to the rules of Qixia Mountain, the number of spiritual herbs that Yanxuan can receive from Baicao Yuan at one time must be at least twenty low-level and middle-grade pills handed over to the master. If there is less, the disciple must make up for it himself, or Either working for the master's sect or finding ways to obtain spiritual herbs and preparing qualified elixirs on your own. In short, if you don't make up the difference, it will be difficult to receive spiritual herbs from Baicao Yard.
But if more elixirs meet the requirements, such as the two pills left by Yanxuan himself, they belong to the disciples. Qixia Mountain will not care if Yanxuan uses the elixir for himself or sells it. . The better Yanxuan is at preparing elixirs, the greater her profits will be. For example, if she can prepare twenty-five low-level and mid-level pills at a time, she can keep five for her own use.
The same will be true when refining alchemy in the future. In short, the higher the attainment, the higher the profit.
If she can collect ten of the small bamboo cards that Senior Sister Mei gave her, Baicaoyuan will give Yanxuan a small jade button, made of jasper, about the size of a fingernail, and tied to the top of the teacher's jade pendant, which is called "spiritual grass". "Kou", with it worn on the body, when others buy the elixir prepared by oneself, they will feel relieved when they see the "spiritual herb Kou". Above the Lingcao Kou is the "Baicao Knot", which is also a jade button made of jasper. It is different from the Lingcao Kou in shape, but it has certain skills in dispensing medicine. At least the small bamboo cards that are qualified for dispensing must be accumulated to 100 to get it. .
And if you have some success in alchemy, Qixia Mountain will give you a small white jade gourd. It is even more difficult to hang this thumb-sized white jade gourd on the silk ribbon of the master's jade pendant.
On the belt of Senior Sister Min's jade pendant, there were Lingcao Kou, Baicao knot, and a small white jade gourd. Yanxuan was envious after knowing the origin of those ornaments.
"Sister Min, look!"
Yanxuan was extremely happy after getting the small bamboo card given by Senior Sister Mei, and found Senior Sister Min in Baicao Courtyard.
Senior Sister Min smiled and took the small bamboo sign and looked at it.
"Okay, not bad. Junior sister Yan, you did a good job. Well, the handwriting seems to belong to senior sister Mei. She is very serious. It is not easy to get this little sign from her!"
"I also want to wear this like Senior Sister Min."
With that said, Yanxuan reached out his hand and touched Senior Sister Min's spirit herb.
"Then, do you want the Baicao Knot first or the Jade Gourd first?"
"This...I really haven't thought about it."
"Everyone is the same, but generally speaking, Baicao knots faster. How is your fire control skill?"
"I haven't put it down yet. One day when senior sister is free, how about I demonstrate it to you?"
"Don't worry, I'll take a look after you get the spiritual grass. If it works, I can teach you how to make alchemy."
"Senior Sister Min, I made twenty-two pills this time, and I kept two for myself."
"Junior Sister Yan, please don't use or sell these extra medicines. If you can collect twenty pills, you can get a portion of the spiritual herbs from Baicao Garden without having to prepare the medicine. You can keep the spiritual herbs first. , you can use it when you learn alchemy. Alchemy is much more difficult than preparing medicine. The rate of elixir formation is very low when you first learn. This is how my senior sister taught me when I was learning alchemy. Otherwise, there would be nothing like that. There are plenty of spiritual herbs for me to practice with."
Yanxuan understood immediately after hearing this and said gratefully: "I understand, thank you Senior Sister Min."
