This meeting had great expectations and purpose for Zhou Cang. The same is true for Zhang Yan.
Both of them focused on the elixir.
"The bone-strengthening pill has such a heaven-defying effect, the required medicinal materials must be extremely rare, right?" Although Zhou Cang knew that it would be a bit rude to ask directly, but this matter was very important to what he said later, and he had to ask it, so he tried his best Let the smile on your face be kinder and your tone of voice gentler and more natural.
Zhang Yan shook his head and replied: "Actually, they are not too rare, but some of them are relatively expensive. The common people are in a tight situation and do not dare to buy them, so they relied on luck to find a few in the mountains and fields on the way back, and now they have all been used." The auxiliary medicines are quite cheap and don’t cost a few bucks.”
"Cough cough cough..." Zhou Cang choked and coughed before turning around. What he thought was rare turned out to be because of Zhang Yanqiong. This, this is a bullshit question! I couldn't help but have a new opinion about Zhang Yan: These people of the miscellaneous school lineage are too honest, don't they even have the right brains? If you have this kind of ability, how can you still go there if you are short of money?
"Well, can you tell me which medicinal materials are mainly inferior? I can help in this regard." Zhou Cang hesitated for a while, then asked tentatively. He was even prepared to change the subject as soon as Zhang Yan refused.
Unexpectedly, Zhang Yan didn't mind at all, and nodded and said: "There is nothing that cannot be said. "Elixir" and ordinary patent medicines are two completely different things. There is no taboo when taking out elixirs. You don't need to be so cautious."
Zhou Cang laughed, but he felt that he was a little bit angry. If the methods of the miscellaneous school were so easy to learn, it wouldn't be so difficult to encounter them now.
"The main ones are Jinxu, Roucao, Baihui..." Zhang Yan reported eleven medicinal materials in one breath. They are all precious medicinal materials with the highest prices in Yuan Pharmacy. Of course, these are not all, but they have included the most expensive drugs.
However, only Zhang Yan himself knew that the medicinal materials he mentioned had nothing to do with Bone Strengthening Pill. This is the recipe for another elixir he prepared for himself.
Biqing Dan. One pill taken into the belly can increase your life span by ten years!
It was also the tonic pill Zhang Yan prepared for himself.
However, Zhang Yan, who has experienced the bone-strengthening pill training, knows very well that his current alchemy skills are basically just beginners. Although it is enough to refine the blue green pill, there are still many ways to truly refine it. Gotta go. At the very least, it takes many tries.
He had calculated in his mind before that one furnace of Biqing Dan could consume more than half of the salary he had earned on Yubei Mountain in the past two years, and he even failed four or five furnaces of Bone Strengthening Pill before succeeding. Once, then there were successive failures. Then when refining the Bi Qing Dan, wouldn’t it be necessary to try it ten times? Dozens of attempts to succeed?
Zhang Yan understands why the four treasures of Taoism—wealth, companionship, law, and land—put “wealth” first. This really costs money!
I have no money, and I don’t want to throw my money into the water, but I still have to practice Biqingdan. What should I do? Just pass on the cost of alchemy to others.
So the bone-strengthening pill was thrown to Zhou Cang as a "favor" and also as bait. Now Zhou Cang has taken the bait. From now on, he will use the medicinal materials given by Zhou Cang to practice Biqing Dan, and then give the opponent Bone Strengthening Pill in return. Zhou Cang is happy and Zhang Yan is not stressed.
Besides, isn’t this how human relationships become deeper through interactions?
Not only did Zhou Cang remember the eleven herbs reported by Zhang Yan, but the adjutant next to him also remembered them firmly.
"These medicinal materials are not cheap, but they are not rare either. I can help you find them at any time." Zhou Cang's eyes were hot, and he seemed to see Zhang Yan placing handfuls of bone-strengthening pills on the The look in front of him.
But what Zhang Yan wanted was a long-term relationship, not a temporary coaxing of Zhou Cang, which was not necessary. Therefore, Zhang Yan still had to clarify some misunderstandings about elixirs at the very beginning to avoid misunderstandings in the future.
After thinking about his words, Zhang Yan put away the smile on his face and said sternly: "The common people are naturally grateful for your kindness, but maybe you have misunderstandings about bone strengthening pills, or elixirs. Please allow me." The grass-roots people are enlightened."
"Haha, Zhang Yan, you don't have to be polite. If there's anything I don't know about, you can just say it. I'm also curious about what methods there are for such a magical thing as the Bone Strengthening Pill."
Zhang Yan: "Sir, I have also taken the Bone Strengthening Pill. The effect is indeed very good, and the gain is based on the strength of the user's own muscles and bones. Therefore, the higher the cultivation level of the warrior, the greater the gain will be after taking it. But this thing also has a limitation, or in other words, all elixirs have a common limitation, which is drug resistance."
"Drug resistance?" This was the first time Zhou Cang heard this word, but the literal meaning was not difficult to understand, so he frowned slightly after hearing it.
"Yes, it's drug resistance. The effect of the elixir will be the best when it is taken for the first time, and then it will decrease until it has no effect. Moreover, different elixirs develop resistance at different rates. Some only have the first pill. It is effective, but then it has no effect. Some are slower. For example, the Bone Strengthening Pill will no longer be effective after ten pills."
"This..." Although it was not good news, it did not surprise Zhou Cang. He was thinking about the possible limitations of Bone Strengthening Pill last night. This is indeed the case now.
"How much muscle and bone strength can be gained after ten pills?"
"Because the diminishing effect varies from person to person, it's difficult to say the precise scale, but generally speaking, ten pills can increase the strength of muscles and bones by at least 30%. Of course, it refers to the specific number of points and not the specific increase." Zhang Yan left There is some leeway. In fact, the alchemy book says it is 30% to 40%, at least.
That's enough. As a warrior in the Aperture Realm, Zhou Cang has a much clearer understanding of muscles and bones than Zhang Yan. Once the resistance to the Bone Strengthening Pill comes out, the usage of this pill will definitely change. But it ignores the realm of cultivation, and the iron-clad medicinal effect of increasing the strength of muscles and bones will not be cut in half due to drug resistance. The actual impact is not big.
Because in Zhou Cang's view, this bone-strengthening pill was destined not to be a treasure that low-level warriors could use.
In addition, Zhang Yan's words also revealed a message that surprised Zhou Cang: other pills.
Does the implication mean that Zhang Yan knows more than just bone-strengthening pills? What are the effects of other elixirs? With a gem like Bone Strengthening Pill in front of me, other pills must not be simple either.
"If your Excellency is in need, ordinary people can help you refine two furnaces of bone-strengthening elixirs. However, if you fail to refine it, I hope you will forgive me. After all, ordinary people do not have the ability to make alchemy at their fingertips, and there will always be a waste of money. .”