The lecture ended soon.
What Dongbu Zhenren talked about was still about the purification part of alchemy, but it was much more in-depth than last time. He talked about a lot of new alchemy theories, and at the same time demonstrated several unique techniques on the spot, which made it difficult for everyone to purify the elixir. Minus, it’s worth a lot of the fare.
When coming out of Dongbulu, Lu Zhong saw that it was still a little early, so he decided to go to Nanshi.
He didn't forget the arm in the storage bag.
Two days ago, Lu Zhong heard some shocking news.
The elder of the Changchun Valley Punishment Hall who was chasing Madame Butterfly had not returned to the city for so long. Instead, he had no news and lost contact completely. Seven days after losing contact, the sign of the Soul Hall was broken into pieces.
The sign of the Soul Hall is connected to the monk's soul. Once broken, it means death.
Lu Zhong couldn't help but feel frightened that he could even kill Jindan Zhenren.
Whether it was to find the origin and purpose of the arm or to prepare for Madam Butterfly's possible revenge, he was going to Nan City to buy some information about Madam Butterfly.
Maybe this can play a lot of roles.
With this thought in mind, he took out a large amount of spiritual stones, bought all the information about Madam Butterfly over the years, and then analyzed it in detail.
Not to mention, Lu Zhong really found clues about the function of the arm.
But it was a file that came out of the Changchun Valley, which contained this small line of record, "... On the tenth day, Madam Butterfly was surrounded. She suddenly smelled a strange fragrance. The cultivators were confused and fled away."
Seeing this, Lu Zhong couldn't help but wonder what the word "confused" in this article meant.
Confusion, or temptation?
"Why go to such trouble? Go back and refine your arms, and maybe you can get the answer!"
If his prediction was correct, the strange fragrance recorded in the file should be present in Madam Butterfly's body, and there might also be that component on her arm. It is expected that it can be easily extracted using the purification method of alchemy.
The human body is not as complex as a magical elixir. In fact, it only consists of a few components.
Thinking of this, Lu Zhong walked out of Nanshi.
He did not return to Lintao Pavilion immediately, but changed direction and walked towards the West City of the Inner City.
As famous as the elixirs produced in the Changchun Valley, there are also the alchemy furnaces smelted in Changchun Fairy City. With their special selling point of high quality and low price, they can even be sold to the Middle Earth via the East China Sea route, so that they can be exchanged for it every year. Spiritual objects, and this also established the status of the first southern barbarian sect in Changchun Valley.
The West Market is where these weapon refining workshops gather.
At this moment, what appears in front of Lu Zhong is a workshop street. On both sides are the display facades of these workshops. There are large and small alchemy furnaces, ranging from the most classic three-legged and two-eared ones to the recently popular ones. The Bagua furnace is all-encompassing and all-encompassing.
The streets were crowded with people, many of whom were wearing exotic costumes. They were all monks who came to buy alchemy furnaces.
Lu Zhong chose a larger one, looked at the signboard with three gilded characters "Baodingfang", crossed the threshold and walked in.
Immediately, a beautiful and knowledgeable guest came forward to receive him, smiling and saying:
"Welcome to you, senior. I wonder what kind of alchemy furnace you need, senior?"
Lu Zhong thought for a while and expressed his needs.
Considering that Master Dongbu will soon talk about the melting and transformation part of alchemy, and he is already proficient in purifying elixirs, there is no need to buy a novice practice furnace, so if you want to buy one, buy a fully functional alchemy furnace, and you can also do it in advance Experience the normal alchemy process.
"If possible, it would be best to use a Yin attribute alchemy furnace." Lu Zhong added.
Unlike most people in Dongbulu, he does not use spiritual flames catalyzed by spiritual wood to make elixirs, but directly uses spiritual flames such as Jinyang insect fire. Using spiritual fire to make elixirs has the advantage of strong firepower and very few impurities in the flames. , but the Yang attribute of the Golden Yang Insect Fire itself is a huge flaw.
Lone Yin does not give birth, Lone Sun does not grow.
This sentence can also be applied to alchemy.
Therefore, if you can use a yin attribute alchemy furnace to make elixirs, you can achieve the effect of combining yin and yang, which can even increase the success rate of elixirs a little.
Hearing this, Zhike pondered for a moment and opened the alchemy furnace catalog in his hand.
"Senior, you can take a look at this Guishui Phoenix Wing Stove."
"The main material of the alchemy furnace is cold cold iron produced in the snowfields of northern Xinjiang. During the forging, an additional drop of pure Yin Guishui essence is mixed in. All the auxiliary arrays are complete, which can reduce the burden of alchemy. About this alchemy furnace In terms of energy supply, there are both traditional true energy injection, and a second-level spirit-guiding array that can absorb spiritual energy, or it can be connected to the spirit-gathering array to ensure a stable supply of spiritual energy when refining elixirs."
On the page of the book, an alchemy furnace comes to life.
It is in the shape of three legs and two ears, with a height of two feet and three feet. Its surface is dark black and decorated with golden flying phoenix patterns. The overall appearance is calm and restrained.
There is a price tag below, and the price is higher than the high-grade magic weapon, which is 12,500 spirit stones.
"That's it." Lu Zhong didn't think much about it.
This furnace is very suitable for him. Even though it sells for tens of thousands, it is probably because the material cost accounts for most of it. After all, the main material of the furnace body is gloomy cold iron, and the drop of Guishui essence is not a bargain. The former is still Well, as long as you can find the cold iron veins, you can get this kind of associated ore, but the latter has to risk being attacked by monsters and dive into the abyss of the ocean to possibly collect this rare spiritual object.
Lu Zhong guessed that if it weren't for the harsh conditions of use of this furnace and the need to specially cultivate the Yang Fire, which caused no one to care about the Guishui Phoenix Wing Furnace, he might not have been able to buy this alchemy furnace at a low price of more than 10,000 yuan.
…
Return to the backyard of Lintao Pavilion.
Lu Zhong opened all the magic circles, and then placed several layers of spiritual energy restrictions around the room chosen as the alchemy room for insurance purposes to prevent any accidents later.
After doing this, he didn't forget to pinch one to detect malicious intent.
The effect of this technique is greatly reduced when it reaches the foundation building stage. It is not that its effect is weakened, but that all foundation building practitioners are basically aware of the existence of this technique, and various shielding methods have become easier to obtain. Therefore, even if someone really has malicious intentions , it is extremely difficult to detect malware and detect early warning.
"It would be great if I could learn the art of seeking good luck and avoiding bad luck." Lu Zhongmo thought.
Unfortunately, this technique is one of the second-level auxiliary spells. Because it is often useful in seeking good luck and avoiding evil, its owners regard it as a secret and will not spread it casually. Some sects Considering the stability of regional governance, the family has long banned various chambers of commerce from selling this technique to the outside world in order to prevent it from being acquired by evil cultivators, making it significantly more difficult to hunt down and arrest.
Shaking his head to put away distracting thoughts, he took out the sealed arm.
Unexpectedly, half a month after Madam Butterfly's arm was chopped off, the strange fragrance not only did not weaken at all, but became extremely strong, so much so that Lu Zhong had to use the Ice Heart Art to resist the desire to eat in his heart.
After the furnace was preheated, Lu Zhong put it into the bronze alchemy furnace.
Under the burning of Jinyang insect fire, the arm began to melt and decompose. The impurities of flesh and blood were quickly burned away by the high temperature, turned into fly ash and blown out of the furnace, but the part that gave off the strange fragrance was precisely purified by him. , gathered into a ball of pale oily droplets.
The droplets are colorless and odorless, and appear to be normal on the surface.
Lu Zhong thought for a while and decided to try to contact it in the gray fog space.
With the help of the ability to interfere with reality in the gray fog space, Lu Zhong separated part of the pale droplet and dropped it into the palm of his hand.
In an instant, visions appeared before his eyes.
Looking around, it seems like you are in a wonderful world of bliss, which makes people sink in and cannot extricate themselves, but it will suddenly turn into Shura purgatory, madly torturing the deceived people.
After being trapped for a long time, Lu Zhongcai turned pale and exited the gray fog space.
When he looked at the droplet again, he was as scared as a tiger.
"This thing is so sharp that the foundation-building cultivator has no ability to resist. If the Jindan cultivator hadn't taken precautions in advance, I'm afraid he would have been hit. The effect is even worse than the legendary 'Incense that confuses the gods'."
"I'll call you Luo Shenxiang." Lu Zhong carefully sealed it into a jade box.
Then his eyes moved to the ashes in the furnace, and he couldn't help but think carefully: "The incense of confusion is so sharp, the ashes may also be of great use!"
Immediately, he suppressed his nausea and simulated it in the gray fog space.
After a pause, Lu Zhong's eyes showed surprise.
"It's interesting. I didn't expect that these ashes are the antidote to the incense that confuses the gods. As long as you take it in your mouth, you won't be afraid of the incense that confuses the gods."
After a moment's hesitation, Lu Zhong dug out a bag of leftover cakes, mixed them with the ashes, added a lot of Qinghe Linglu that he had made with his hands, and kneaded the compound into pills.
In this way, seventeen antidotes were obtained.
"Corpse oil, ashes..." Lu Zhong knew that he was never merciless in killing people, but taking these ghost things still exceeded his psychological endurance limit, and he inevitably felt a little uncomfortable in his heart.
But when I think about it, Madam Butterfly is still at large, and there is no guarantee that she will come to her door at any time. And with these antidotes, at least he won't lose his resistance all at once.
Be prepared.
I finally feel a lot better.
…
In the days that followed, Lu Zhong concentrated on practicing.
The planted thunder grass, nourished by the Xiaogui Water Thunder Array, is growing quite gratifyingly. A new spore has already grown, and it is expected that it will grow into a branch in time.
The cultivation of the substitute king insect is also proceeding in an orderly manner.
Not sparing spirit stones, a large amount of spiritual fluid was invested, and combined with the Nine Transformations of the King Insect, the substitute King Insect finally entered the first pupation stage and successfully completed the first molt of the insect body.
The Thunder Grass and the Substitute King Insect are the keys for Lu Zhong to survive the Three-Nine Thunder Tribulation.
After building the foundation for such a long time, his understanding of the Three Nine Thunder Tribulations was different from before.
As far as Lu Zhong knows, at the beginning of the Three Nine Thunder Tribulations, there were three rounds of thunder tribulations, and each round had nine thunder tribulations, so it was named "Three Nine Thunder Tribulations". The power of the thunder tribulations increased in sequence. The first eight thunder tribulations were thought to be It is not difficult to survive, but the difficulty lies in the final thunderbolt, whose power will suddenly increase several times.
Basically, the monks who failed to overcome the tribulation were defeated by these three tribulation thunders.
If you fail to overcome the catastrophe, only one person out of ten will survive.
The number of Jindan Zhenren is far less than that of Foundation Establishment Zhenxiu, which is largely caused by the Three Nine Thunder Tribulation.
If they are not sure enough, many monks will choose to live for more than two hundred years of foundation building instead of pursuing the golden elixir path and surviving the three-nine thunder tribulations of a narrow escape.
…
Time goes by and another year of Lantern Festival is ushering in.
On this day, Lu Zhong went out of seclusion specially to spend the festival with Li Hejun.
The best place to view lanterns in Changchun Fairy City is naturally Changchun Street, which leads directly from the inner city to the gate of Changchun Valley. During the lantern season, traffic control is lifted here. Both ordinary monks and ordinary people can enter Changchun Street on this day. Ornamental lanterns.
At this time, the major forces will work hard and regard this place as a place to display their financial resources and status. They will hang their prepared lanterns along the street. Each colorful lantern may be carefully crafted, evolving into scenes of lantern festivals. According to legend, or ingenuity, a magic circle is used to spread magical powers on it, with the effects of "removing diseases" and "healing", spreading blessings, so that people can not only enjoy the wonders of lanterns, but also enjoy the practical benefits brought by the lantern festival .
At this moment, under the gorgeous lanterns, the streets are full of tourists.
Fireworks exploded in the sky from time to time, illuminating the night sky with colorful colors.
The lights and fireworks add to the festive atmosphere.
Lu Zhong and Li Hejun either visited the food stalls set up along the street, tasted rare delicacies from all over the country, or guessed the lantern riddles, enjoying this rare holiday time.
Walking somewhere, Li Hejun suddenly grabbed Lu Zhong, pointed to the front and said, "Sir, look, there seems to be the Chengde Chamber of Commerce stall in front, why don't we go take a look?"
Lu Zhong looked forward and saw a familiar figure.
"Let's go over and have a look."
In front of the Chengde Chamber of Commerce stall, the two lanterns had been extinguished for some reason. Yu Feng'er, who was as beautiful as a flower in a rich dress, exuded a unique aura of foundation-building cultivators and was sternly scolding the two family elders in charge of this matter.
"Seventh Aunt, Fourth Nephew, I will entrust this matter to you because I can trust my own people, but what will you give me in return? Huh, you are substituting inferior goods and enriching your own pockets... To be honest, I Now I am very disappointed with you two! When I get back, I will go to the ancestral hall to accept my sins and relinquish my responsibilities as an elder."
Yu Feng'er's words directly determined the future of two family elders.
Without the position of elders, the family support they receive every year will be greatly reduced. Not only will they be affected, but their descendants will also be greatly affected. The speed of future cultivation will definitely slow down because of this. , or even come to a standstill.
A gorgeous lady stood with a young man in a yellow shirt, her expression as if she was mourning for her heir.
At any other time, they would definitely refute Yu Feng'er's decision, but the situation today is different. For some reason, Yu Feng'er suddenly succeeded in being promoted to Foundation Establishment and became the well-deserved number one member of the Yu family. The weight of her words The same cannot be said for the same reason. Once an order is issued, no one dares to disobey it.
Under this situation, even if they were stripped of their position as elder, the two of them could only accept it with gritted teeth.
On the other side, Yu Feng'er noticed that Lu Zhong and the others were coming. She didn't know what she thought of at this moment. Her cheeks turned slightly red. She turned to an old woman in sixties who was following her and said, "Auntie, I'll leave this place to you." Deal with it, I still have things to do!"
"Master, go and do your work. I will take care of things myself." The sixty-year-old woman used to be the manager of the Yu family's property. Due to the lack of work among the younger generations in the family, she had no choice but to come back to work. It can be said that she can handle these things easily.
Yu Feng'er left quickly, as if she was a different person. The majestic aura that the head of the family should have had disappeared. Instead, she rushed to a young man like a girl, and she couldn't help but sigh.
"Oh, I don't know if this is good or bad!"
…
"Congratulations, fellow Taoist, have you broken through to foundation building?"
Lu Zhong, on his side, noticed the change in Yu Feng'er's cultivation and raised his hands in congratulations.
Hearing this, Yu Feng'er's ears turned red and heated up, and she whispered: "Thanks to fellow Taoist Lu, I finally broke through the confinement of the ice soul spirit body and successfully broke through to the foundation building stage. Regarding this matter, I originally wanted to stay After the Lantern Festival, when the clan held a foundation-building celebration, the invitation to fellow Taoists to explain was not an intentional concealment."
As she spoke, those charming things from before could not help but come to mind.
Thinking of the details of the process, her legs and feet felt a little weak.
Seeing this, Lu Zhong had no choice but to help Yu Feng'er to prevent her from falling to the ground.
"Thank you, thank you Daoist Lu." Yu Feng'er said with a blushing face.
Li Hejun looked at it with a smile. After a while, he saw that she could stand up straight, and then he suggested: "Since my sister is here too, why don't the three of us visit the Lantern Street together?"
"Is that okay?" Yu Feng'er said in a voice as quiet as a mosquito.
"I don't mind." Lu Zhong responded.
He really doesn't mind being hugged left and right.
To be honest, this should be the dream of most men, right?
Then without any explanation, he took Yu Feng'er's arm, and Li Hejun also didn't leave behind. He just hugged her from left to right and took the two girls to enjoy the beautiful lanterns in front of them.
At first, Yu Feng'er was a little uncomfortable, but she soon smiled.
Seeing her getting more and more crazy as she played, gradually revealing her repressed nature, Lu Zhong and Li Hejun, who looked like an old married couple, couldn't help but look at each other and shake their heads with helpless expressions on their faces.
Playing and walking, we soon came to the end of the lamp street.
Ahead is a stretch of majestic mountains. Due to the constant overflow of spiritual energy from the spiritual veins of the Changchun Valley, it has formed an aurora scene that is no less than fireworks. Many monks and mortals are stopping to watch. This is their only chance once a year, during the Lantern Festival. The amazing beauty you can see.
"Hey, what are you doing?" Lu Zhong suddenly noticed that Yu Feng'er had her hands clasped together with a serious expression, as if she was mumbling something.
"The Point Guard Is Here"
Li Hejun was equally curious.
"This is our custom there..." Yu Feng'er said with a smile, like a girl, and then added: "It is said that if you make a wish sincerely during the Lantern Festival, your wishes will usually come true!"
"I don't think this will be effective." Lu Zhong expressed his opinion untimely.
When a monk embarks on the path to immortality, he is destined to rely only on himself in this life.
Instead of pinning your hopes on unknown existences and expecting your wishes to come true one day, it is better to go out and fight more, maybe this way you can go further on the road to immortality.
Hearing murmurings again, it was Li Hejun who was also making a wish.
"What is your wish? Why don't you tell me and listen to it?" Lu Zhong thought that he had enough financial resources to satisfy Li Hejun's wish, so he took the initiative to ask.
"Hehe, this is a secret!" Li Hejun said with a smile.
As she said that, she looked at Yu Feng'er, as if they had reached an agreement, and laughed mischievously.
"Hmph, you want to unite to deal with me, right?" Lu Zhong snorted coldly.
Seeing that the two women couldn't stop laughing, he felt that he had lost face, so he turned cold and said harshly: "In that case, neither of you two can get out of bed tomorrow!"
Just do it!
…
After one night.
At dawn, Lu Zhong woke up.
Looking at Yu Feng'er who was sleeping soundly, he looked a little ugly. He raised his hand and condensed the Jinyang insect fire. The spiritual fire was much weaker than before, and the color was slightly lighter, but it was in order to resolve the Bingpo spiritual energy last night. He used it to neutralize it. Although he benefited a lot from it, the consumption of the flame spirituality was also very obvious.
Lu Zhong removed the hands and feet wrapped around his body and got off the bed.
I first performed a few cleaning techniques to dry my body before putting on the cassock.
"Overall, the advantages outweigh the disadvantages." He thought silently in his mind, opened the door and walked towards the quiet room in the backyard.
After last night's intense training, Lu Zhong felt that the true energy in his body was about to move. This was a sign that his realm was about to break through. If he retreated at this time, he might be able to successfully break through.
When I walked out of the room, I didn't forget to close the door.
The air in the courtyard in the early morning is also particularly fresh.
Um? A little too fresh!
Also, some of the restrictions in the courtyard have also disappeared.
Lu Zhong was shocked, but his expression did not change at all.
Pretending to recall what happened last night, secretly he entered the gray fog space and used the scene to review and investigate.
The concubines and maids who lived in the front yard were all dead at this moment, and what killed them were shockingly flying butterfly needles.
Needless to say, it must be Madame Butterfly!
Whether she went crazy and took great risks to sneak into the city to avenge her broken arm, or for other purposes, it was a huge crisis for Lu Zhong.
Continuing to return to Shuo, Lu Zhong finally found Madam Butterfly's hiding place.
Front left, behind the tree!
Almost the moment Lu Zhong exited the gray mist space, an imperceptible aroma came from his nose.
Without any hesitation, he immediately took out a pill and took it. The antidote made from Madam Butterfly's severed arm took effect immediately, and all the illusions bursting out of his heart stopped immediately.
"Humph, die!"
Seeing that the plan failed, Madam Butterfly no longer concealed her figure and rushed out.
She has a realm advantage over Lu Zhong, and combined with the Butterfly Transformation Technique, her combat power is even more crushing.
A flash of madness flashed in her eyes, Madam Butterfly wanted to kill Lu Zhong here to avenge the murder of her flesh and blood.
Lu Zhong was extremely angry at this moment, and without any retreat, he went up to kill the general.
The two of them fought for just a moment. The courtyard, which was originally filled with flowers and plants and looked like a garden, was affected by the magic and the earth and rocks flew away. Roots and stems of plants were broken, and everything was in a mess.
If the surrounding houses were not surrounded by magical formations, they would collapse at this moment.
"Boom boom boom!"
Lu Zhong gritted his teeth and pulled out the flying butterfly needle from his body, regardless of whether the blood would flow violently or not. Lightning light continued to appear in his left hand, and thunder struck Madam Butterfly's body one after another in his palm.
Blow her pair of butterfly wings until they tremble wildly, and a hole will appear in three or two blows.
The fight took place in a square inch of the courtyard.
Both of them did not keep distance, but relied on magic to attack the enemy.
Lu Zhong slashed out with the Chi Yang Magic Sword, but Madam Butterfly caught it with her butterfly wings, bringing out a gorgeous magical aura and flying sparks.
Madam Butterfly was the fastest-reacting monk of the same level he had ever seen.
He got mad and didn't care about his meridians.
With a pinch of Ning's fingers, he slashed out with two swords again.
Lu Zhong wanted to see who could persist to the end.
When the two were fighting, there was an explosion behind them.
Madam Butterfly originally had a ferocious look on her face, about to sneer at something, but her expression gradually changed to one of anger and frustration.
Lu Zhong didn't even look at it, and sneered at her: "What, what do you think of my eight-door formation with golden locks?"
The Golden Lock Eight-door Formation is a type of second-level mountain-protecting formation.
If they hadn't seen it with their own eyes, no one would have dared to believe that someone would arrange it in the courtyard. This can no longer be described as outrageous. It can only be said that there are so many spiritual stones that there is no place to burn them.
But in order to protect his own safety and protect the secrets of the backyard, Lu Zhong insisted on setting it up. For this reason, he did not hesitate to spend thousands of spiritual stones every year to maintain the operation of the formation.
Once this formation is activated, it will also include a place adjacent to the backyard, which is the bedroom where he and the two women spent the night yesterday.
"Die, die with me!" Madam Butterfly was furious.
How could she have imagined that Lu Zhong was so careful now that he arranged a large formation in a small courtyard. At this moment, he only wanted to kill the young man in front of him in order to avenge his dead flesh and blood, Zhang Miao.
Yes, Zhang Miao is the flesh and blood of Madame Butterfly.
Taking action at Yunlu Pavilion that day should have been absolutely foolproof.
Unexpectedly, Yu Feng'er actually invited an unexpected figure like Lu Zhong, which caused Zhang Miao's plan to fail. Not only did Zhang Miao's idea of controlling the Chengde Chamber of Commerce go to waste, but he himself was also hunted down by the Changchun Valley Punishment Hall.
On the day before the Lantern Festival, he died of an extremely cruel soul-refining torture specially designed for demon cultivators.
