After selecting the medicine, you still need to test the medicine.
Before accumulating enough experience in refining medicine, a novice like Lu Zhong who only knows how to imitate medicine, the only way to determine the true efficacy of pills is to test the medicine.
Naturally, the topaz rat was used for the step of testing the medicine.
After summoning the yellow jade rat, Lu Zhong gave it a rat-training pill and began to observe its reaction.
"Very good, no vomiting, no blood oozing from the mouth and nose... Well, my body is starting to have a spasm reaction, so I need to take note of this."
After observing for half an hour and seeing that the yellow jade rat didn't look like it was going to die, he rewarded it with half a catty of wild boar meat and waved it away.
The entire trial process does not happen overnight, and it also takes a certain amount of time for the pills to take effect.
After half a month of trial and observation, Lu Zhong determined the efficacy of the first batch of Peishu Pills.
It worked, but not quite.
After taking the Pei Shu Pills for a period of time, the yellow jade rat's sensitivity to spiritual energy did increase, but it did not achieve the effect mentioned in the prescription. Secondly, it also suffered from short-term body cramps after taking the medicine, and diarrhea for three consecutive days. side effect.
After re-refining it, the diarrhea not only disappeared, but a new side effect of vomiting blood appeared.
And so on, one side effect after another.
After struggling for more than half a year, Lu Zhong finally made a Pei Shu Pill with effects close to those described in the prescription, with the only side effect being drowsiness.
"It is said that the process of refining alchemy is ten times more complicated than this. I can't even imagine it!"
Lu Zhong was frightened when he thought that the yellow jade rat was almost poisoned to death several times during the drug testing process.
It's not that I feel sorry for Huang Yushu, but that I feel sorry for the spiritual stone I invested. If it really turns out to be in vain, it will be a big loss.
Even refining pills is so difficult. Refining pills that involve changes in the aura of more complex medicines will be exponentially more difficult. Not to mention the various waste pills that will be produced as a result, just the process of testing the pills. , will burn a large amount of spiritual stones.
"No wonder they say that making alchemy means burning spiritual stones!" Lu Zhong sighed with emotion.
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In the quiet room, most of the incense of tranquility contained in the ten spirit stones has burned away.
The function of this incense is to calm the mind and calm the mind, and it often has miraculous effects when used to achieve breakthroughs in small realms.
Lu Zhong was shocked when he heard a soft sound, and a circle of spiritual light burst out of thin air in the quiet room. His aura began to increase, but another meridian was opened, and he was one step closer to the Great Zhoutian.
Breaking through to the fifth level of Qi Refining, the spiritual power in the body increased by 50% again.
Opening his eyes, Lu Zhong looked happy.
"Finally a breakthrough!"
This breakthrough time was more than two months earlier than he expected.
To be able to achieve this speed, in addition to taking pills and refining qi for several years, there is also the contribution of the Four Spiritual Skills. The purifying properties of spiritual power can speed up the resolution of erysipelas, thereby shortening the cycle of taking the pill.
In this way, he can break through in advance.
After carefully experiencing the changes brought about by the breakthrough, Lu Zhong sat quietly for a while before opening the door and going out.
At this time, Huang Yushu was already waiting outside.
After taking the medicine for more than half a year, although its body is still the size of a native dog, its coat has become shinier than before. Recently, it has begun to exude a faint demonic aura, and it is not far away from completely transforming into a spirit-seeking rat.
Lu Zhong couldn't help but laugh when he saw it standing upright, rubbing its little hands not knowing where to put them, and putting on a pitiful expression.
"You are not stupid. You know that rat pills are of great benefit to you."
As he spoke, he poured out two rat training pills and fed them to the yellow jade rat.
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After walking out of the door, Lu Zhong went straight to a cassock shop.
He had already planned to purchase the robes, but he had to refining rat-training pills a while ago and was distracted by his cultivation breakthrough, so he had to put it off again and again.
Now that I finally have time, I naturally want to buy one.
Just as he was about to enter the door, a familiar figure walked out.
"Fellow Daoist Lu?"
Lu Zhong looked up and found that it was Huang Shuyuan.
"It turns out to be Fellow Daoist Huang, long time no see!"
At this time, her figure had gained a lot of weight, but her cultivation had not improved much, and she was still lingering at the third level of Qi Refining.
However, her appearance became more and more beautiful, and with her cold temperament, she could attract the attention of male cultivators from time to time. Some people even looked at Huang Shuyuan and accidentally bumped into the wall.
Noticing the change in Lu Zhong's aura, Huang Shuyuan was slightly absent-minded and said: "I didn't expect that my Taoist friend's cultivation level has reached such a high level after I haven't seen him for more than a year, unlike me who has been standing still."
"It's just a first step, it doesn't count." After meeting an old friend once in a while, Lu Zhong started chatting, "Yanlingshanfang City is full of opportunities. Fellow Taoist is also a talisman maker, so it's not difficult to earn spiritual stones. "
"Oh, it's not that easy..."
Huang Shuyuan sighed and couldn't help but vomit her bitterness to Lu Zhong.
I was full of confidence when I was in Qingliufang, but when I arrived in Yanlingshanfang City, I realized that even if I am a Talisman Maker who has mastered the skills of making Talisman, it is not easy to establish myself here.
Not to mention daily expenses such as firewood, rice, oil and salt, the monthly rent alone made her feel overwhelmed.
If I didn't still have some savings to support myself, I might not even be able to afford renting a house in the Sixth Ring Road at this time, and I would have to move to the Seventh Ring Road to live with ordinary casual cultivators.
"In the final analysis, the arrow-avoiding talismans here cannot be sold for much money. Even if I work hard to make talismans every day without eating or drinking, the spiritual stones I earn can only sustain my basic life."
No, in order to make up for this month's rent, Huang Shuyuan was forced to sell her cassock.
After hearing Huang Shuyuan's experience, Lu Zhong felt that his previous decision to agree to go with Li Dong to search for the coffin fungus was absolutely correct. If he had not mastered the method of making the exorcism talisman, the situation at this time would not be much better.
"There is very little news from Qingliufang here. I wonder what the situation is over there?"
Hearing this, Huang Shuyuan sighed heavily.
"Qingliubo is gone."
"What!" Lu Zhong was shocked by these words.
"Three months after Fellow Daoist Lu moved away, Wulingmen and Qingyangmen went into full-scale war. Qingliufang changed hands several times in the fierce competition. It was turned into a mess by both sides. Fellow Daoists fled to death. The escape has long been reduced to ruins." Huang Shuyuan recalled the scene at that time, and her body couldn't help but tremble.
She was in trouble several times, but fortunately she had the foresight to buy a golden talisman to protect herself, otherwise she would have died in vain in the flames of war.
"Later, in order to turn defeat into victory, the Qingyang Sect set up a trap after capturing Qingliufang and buried a second-level refined corpse that came from unknown sources. The two foundation builders of the Wuling Sect and more than a hundred disciples were trapped in the trap. No one was spared. . Now this second-level corpse refining is still entrenched there and no one dares to mess with it, Qingliufang is dead in name only."
Lu Zhong sighed after hearing this. He didn't expect Qingliufang to die like this.
"Let's not talk about this anymore, I have to go back to make the talisman." Huang Shuyuan sighed again when she said this, and asked Lu Zhong's address by the way, "By the way, I don't know where Lu Daoyou lives now, so I can pay him a visit when I have time. "
When Lu Zhong told the truth and found out that he actually lived alone in a small courtyard in the Fourth Ring Road, Huang Shuyuan looked even more disappointed.
This time she didn't speak anymore, she just bowed slightly and left with a lonely expression.
