After overcoming that psychological barrier, Guo Shihu started reading the part of the Five Poisons Secret Manual about the art of cultivating poisons and refining poisons that they had skipped before.
Most of the contents of this part are recorded in vernacular. It seems that the people in the Miao border where the Five Poison Sect is located are relatively simple, unlike the three religions of Confucianism, Taoism and Buddhism who make articles and secrets so mysterious and mysterious that it makes people confused.
Therefore, Guo Shihu, who was originally a master of science, learned very quickly. Whether it was refining poison or cultivating voodoo insects, excluding those mid-to-high-end parts that required the coordination of the five poisons and true qi, the ordinary techniques of refining poisons and cultivating voodoo insects were still very difficult for him.
Easy to use.
"This is not much different from chemical experiments and biological experiments!"
Guo Shihu smiled happily, finally finding a part of his cultivation that he was better at than Gao Jingfei.
However, many of the recipes recorded in the Five Poisons Secret Manual are extinct in modern times, or they only exist in the world where the secret manual is located but not here.
After excluding these, Guo Shihu found that with the existing materials, he could only make three or five types of things.
Moreover, some of the materials in these three or five formulas need to be replaced with similar modern ones, and we don’t know what the final effect will be.
So he began to unpack the items. One bag contained bottles and cans wrapped in foam paper, another bag contained various packaging materials, and there was also an acrylic box twenty centimeters square.
Those bottles and jars are a mini set of chemical experimental equipment, including a still, a condenser, a test tube, a beaker, an alcohol lamp, etc., which can be used for small-scale experiments such as heating, distillation, and extraction.
A batch of additional reagent bottles and glass bottles are also included.
Those small bags sealed in plastic bags contain various chemical experiment materials and common Chinese medicinal materials and edible seasonings.
When he came back from the hospital in the morning, he went to the stationery wholesale city to collect and purchase these ingredients according to the formula.
Although his chemistry score is not as good as that of mathematics and physics, it is still top-notch among ordinary students. He knows that many toxic substances can be made by combining ordinary materials. This is also his attempt to see if modern chemistry knowledge can be used.
Apply it to the field of poison refining.
As for the remaining box, it is actually an ant castle, also called an ant farm or an ant workshop. It is actually a scientific and educational toy that simulates an ant nest and is used by children to observe the living conditions of ants.
The one Guo Shihu bought was shielded from all sides. Only the sides and top are observation surfaces. The side can observe the ant nests and caves, and the top is a simulated natural surface environment with soil, sand and moss.
Generally speaking, this kind of toy that traps ants in a small box is difficult to feed, and most of the ants will die within a few months or even weeks.
However, Guo Shihu was using the basic Gu insect cultivation method in the Five Poisons Secret Manual to refine ordinary insects into poisonous insects, and then rely on drugs to drive them to attack.
Because it is difficult to use larger insects for experiments, I bought cheap and small ants for experiments.
It's not that he doesn't want to use more powerful spiders, lizards and other ferocious predators for experiments, but those that are difficult to find are more expensive and not as economical as ants.
As a newly graduated college student, even if I have a lot of New Year's money, I can occasionally complete some outsourcing design work under the introduction of my senior teachers, but even if I don't think it's a lavish purchase of figures and materials, I still don't have much left.
If he hadn't had a falling out with his family this time and wanted to start his own business, he wouldn't have thought of saving money as he usually had no idea about money.
The voodoo that Guo Shihu is going to cultivate is called "pain voodoo". As the name suggests, it is a voodoo that causes severe pain after biting people. This is the lowest level of voodoo recorded in the Five Poisons Secret Book. It is usually cultivated with some small social insects, such as locusts.
, Wasp. Because of its low power and low rate of beetle success, quantity wins.
Of course ants are also possible.
According to the method recorded in the Five Poisons Secret Book, Guo Shihu fed the ants some cooked rice grains mixed with medicinal powder and soaked in the shade.
These medicinal powders are dry powders that are mixed and extracted from several materials and then dried. They are mainly botanical medicinal materials and mixed with a small amount of chemical toxins to ensure that the ants will not die suddenly after use and have some time to adapt to the poisons.
The next step is to wait.
After all, cultivating Gu worms cannot be achieved overnight, at least there must be a cycle, and it may even require repeated cultivation and improvement from generation to generation in order to cultivate the best Gu worms.
Even judging from the life cycle of ants, it will take several weeks to achieve initial results.
"If these ants are successfully cultivated into Gu insects, then you can try to buy a batch of bullet ants to cultivate them. It is said that the bite of those things is very painful!"
Guo Shihu murmured to himself.
Because there is no Five Poison Qi, he cannot use the toxic Qi to ripen the Gu worms, so he can only adopt some simple cultivation methods, but the cost is that it is very time-consuming and has a low success rate.
As for the poison, he prepared it very smoothly.
He has already made the three most basic items, Mi Hun Powder, He Ding Hong and Anti-epidemic Soup.
Yes, there is also a disease-repelling soup in it.
The poison refining part of the Five Poisons Secret Manual is not all poison formulas, there are also many secret cures.
Since the southwestern region has been plagued by smog, poison, and humidity since ancient times, most of these medical prescriptions are to expel poisonous insects, miasma, and the like.
This anti-epidemic soup is the most common prescription that can be used to treat plague infections. In modern terms, it can treat a variety of diseases caused by viruses, such as viral colds, diarrhea, etc.
The ratio of the formula is very interesting in Guo Shihu's opinion. In addition to the signature Five Poisons necessary for the Five Poison Sect, it also contains forsythia, lotus seed core, ephedra, bitter almond and other ingredients to clear away heat and soothe the lungs.
Common herbs for relieving cough and asthma.
In addition, there are even kitchen condiments such as ginger, garlic, and pepper.
However, considering that ginger, garlic and pepper are pungent and warm spices in themselves, they also have the functions of relieving the surface and dispersing cold, warming and stopping vomiting, warming the lungs and relieving coughs, detoxifying and killing insects. They are often used as medicine or dietary therapy in traditional Chinese medicine. It is also possible to have this formula.
Not surprising.
Among the other two poisons, Hedinghong, which was known as the deadly poison in ancient times, sounded very powerful, but it was actually the easiest to refine under Guo Shihu's hands.
The so-called Heding Red has been understood in modern research. It is actually arsenic trioxide, which is also commonly known as arsenic. However, in ancient times, arsenic was impure, which caused it to be red. It was also called red vitriol and red letter stone. Therefore, the ancients gave this kind of drama
The poison has an elegant alias "Hedinghong".
Refining this substance was not difficult for Guo Shihu, who had almost perfect scores in chemistry. He could just extract it directly with other arsenic compounds, and it was easy to get pure white arsenic.
As for Mi Hun Powder, it is actually the type of intoxicating drug described in the novel that must be guarded against when traveling in the world.
It is made of several toxic drugs such as Datura and Aconite as raw materials. It is similar to modern anesthetics. It can take effect in more than ten minutes, making people numb their limbs, tighten their whole body, and eventually fall asleep. Those who take an overdose will develop
The whole body twitches, the side effects of spasm, and eventually death due to respiratory paralysis or cardiac arrhythmia.
Among the three medicines, this formula is more difficult because the ingredients are difficult to find. These are state-controlled medicines, and ordinary pharmacies and hospitals will not dare to give them to you without a prescription.
Fortunately, Guo Shihu also had some connections at Jinling University. Through a classmate from the Department of Biomedicine who had a good relationship with the club, he contacted him and bought a batch of white mice and several materials on the pretext of studying biological experiments.
The other party didn't dare to give him more. This was because of the original friendship and the fact that Guo Shihong's eldest brother was a police detective and he couldn't use it to commit crimes. Therefore, Guo Shihu only managed to practice less than 20 grams of Ecstasy in the end.
, enough weight to charm several adults, but better than nothing.