Yu Lie looked at the four things on the table and sighed softly in his heart.
Gu insects can be varied and can also give birth to swarms of insects, which are tiny and can be far or near; spore breeders can be self-reliant and can farm and produce food, which is a good way to make a fortune; and dragon vein breeders,
He is physically strong, able to cultivate both law and body, and has amazing fighting ability. He can reach the point where one person can defeat ten thousand laws.
These three are all the true path of the emperor, and they are also the three most top and most common natal things in alchemy.
The top level represents its great potential and can be practiced step by step. It generally means that there are many Taoists who practice it, and there is no shortage of experience, medicinal materials, secret techniques, etc.
Only the shadow puppet that Yu Lie picked out from the niche was a shadow puppet. Although this object was very suitable for him, it was still a niche. It was not born for a long time. It is even possible that there has not been an immortal in his ancestors.
, is still a complete heresy.
If it weren't for the natal spell that Yu Lie had already mastered, which seemed to fit perfectly with this shadow puppet, he really wouldn't have considered it.
For a time, faced with a choice that could affect the path of a hundred years, Yu Lie was already leaning toward the fourth option, but he began to look forward and backward again.
"The shadow puppets, after all, don't look as good as the first three emperors. They fall into the inferior category. Why not choose Gu insects?"
He hesitated in the end and eliminated the dragon veins altogether.
This is because Yu Lie considered the bronze wine cup as a major factor.
The bronze wine cup can turn poison into spirit and extract materials. This function can make it easier for Yu Li to cook nutrients, raise bugs, and prepare fine leather paper, but it is not very suitable for him to follow the path of dragon veins.
The Way of Dragon Veins requires that the flesh and blood implanted into the body must be active flesh and blood, and the bronze wine cup either cannot absorb living creatures, or it will kill the activity in the flesh and blood.
When refining Qianxue Pills before, Yu Lie had used fish eggs to refine the medicine, and he had repeatedly verified the "shortcoming" of the wine glass.
Lowering his head, Yu Lie leaned in front of the table and thought carefully.
Suddenly, his eyes flashed, and he also ruled out the way of Gu insects!
Although the way of Gu has been promoted, and the old beggar is practicing this very thing, and there are many practitioners in the world, this does not mean that its threshold is low.
If you want to truly step into this path, it is extremely difficult for Yu Lie to achieve it now.
He had never had much exposure to the techniques of cultivating insects, raising them, expelling them, turning them into insects... He had never had much exposure to the techniques of refining Gu. He could not even imagine the series of difficulties that would follow.
Even after breaking through and becoming a Taoist disciple, Yu Lie was not sure whether he could raise qualified natal Gu insects within three to five years.
Looking back at the art of shadow puppetry, although this thing is not as majestic and majestic as the first three, and the method of entry seems bloody and cruel, the difficulty of getting started is only at this point, and it has already been put in front of Yu Lie.
Yu Lie possesses the black film native spell and is good at processing flesh and blood. His probability of passing this level may be greater than that of Dragon Vein!
The thoughts in my heart gradually became clearer.
When choosing a path, Yu Lie not only has to consider the future development, but for a Taoist boy with a low status like him, the more important thing to consider is the current situation.
Yu Lie will not forget that Heishui Town is currently facing a big storm and a crisis is already brewing.
As a high-ranking Taoist boy, he has almost mastered the Poison Technique, and has almost digested the transformation of hair-cutting and marrow-cleansing. In addition to stocking up on talisman elixirs, there is actually no other way to do it.
Enhance his current strength!
Seizing the time and refining his natal blood weapon at the Taoist stage is currently the best way for him to enhance his magic power. As for other things, he will probably have to wait until he is promoted to the eighth-level Taoist disciple before he can try it again.
Even after refining the natal blood vessel, the blood vessel is still just a "baby" and cannot function immediately. Yu Lie can still rely on this weapon to win the favor of the old beggar.
The more the old beggar values Yu Lie, the greater the chance that Yu Lie will successfully survive the next crisis, and it may even be better than his own efforts!
At this point, Yu Lie's thoughts were completely settled:
"Just choose the fourth option, the way of shadow puppets!
Although this path is a side sect, it is currently the most suitable for me, so I can’t be too ambitious. Besides, it is indeed related to the Tao of Talisman, and its potential should be quite high.”
Brushed!
On the table, Yu Lie flicked his sleeves and threw out the first three medicinal ingredients. Now that he had made a complete decision, he couldn't hesitate any longer. Time was running out.
Decision made, next time.
Yu Lie studied the Alchemy Notes carefully in the quiet room. He read carefully all the contents in the notes that were closely related to shadow puppets, until he was thoroughly familiar with them, and began to use various medicinal materials in the hall to try them.
He also specially sent Lao Hutou to deal with the processing hall and beg for some skin membranes and living creatures for himself.
If someone didn't understand something during the skinning process, he would directly invite the skilled Taoist boy from the processing hall to teach him face to face.
And because the Alchemy Notes contain a relatively complete set of procedures regarding the refining of shadow puppets, the content is not extensive.
Yu Lie came out of seclusion specially for this purpose and went to Daolu Courtyard to ask the old man Yu Tou to reminisce about the past.
After having a cup of tea, he broke through and became a high-level Taoist boy. He used the skills he was reluctant to use to exchange for opportunities, and chose a classic book related to peeling and painting in the library.
This classic is called "Peeling the Skin Herbs". Although the content is mainly about how to peel and make skins, and involves the cultivation skills of making leather armor, it is also vaguely related to refining the natal objects of shadow puppets. Please eat the rest.
The tea was not in vain.
With the "Record of Peeling Herbs", his progress in refining the natural medicine has greatly increased.
However, as he delved deeper and deeper, unexpected difficulties eventually emerged.
In the quiet room of Yaofangtang.
Yu Lie's brows were furrowed, and he was pacing back and forth impatiently. In front of him, among the exquisite porcelain on a long table, various skin membranes were soaked in blood-colored water.
Among them were fish skins, snake skins, frogs, apes, tigers, lizards, birds... Everything that the rest of the army could obtain at the moment, he had sorted out.
The membrane placed in the center is ivory white and is a thin piece of human skin only the size of a fist.
This human skin was not peeled off by Yu Lie from someone else, but his own skin.
Yu Lie frowned and thought:
"How can we make the skin that has been peeled off and refined with medicine be able to be connected to the blood again?"
Yu Lie originally thought that the membrane peeled off from his body could be easily put on his body again.
However, he surprisingly discovered that after being soaked in the medicinal liquid, the activity in the skin membrane had already been lost and became a "dead matter" that could no longer return to the body.
After discovering this problem, Yu Lie was worried and happy at the same time.
Fortunately, he didn't just follow what was recorded in the notes and recklessly peel off the skin all over his body. Instead, he first took a piece of skin from his inner thigh and prepared the skin for testing.
In the troubled state, one idea after another popped up in Yu Lie's mind: "Perhaps we can rely on more pure spiritual liquid to delay the destruction of the active vitality in the membrane..."
After sorting out several seemingly feasible methods, Yu Lie once again immersed himself in peeling and preparing skins.
With the bronze wine cup in hand, he immediately improved the concentration of the spiritual liquid soaking the skin membrane, and indeed slowed down the loss of skin membrane activity.
Then he replaced some of the medicinal materials in the spiritual liquid with his own blood, and once again successfully delayed the effectiveness of the membrane.
After using these two methods, Yu Lie was confident in dealing with small pieces of skin and had plenty of time, but he still didn't dare to actually do it.
Because according to what is recorded in the Alchemy Notes, if you want to make your natal magic weapon more satisfactory and more effective, the material used to make the leather book must be at least half of the body's outer skin, and the more and more complete the better, the better.
Yu Lie planned to peel off the whole thing and use it, which made him worry that the refining process would be too long, which would greatly increase the possibility of failure.
To be on the safe side, he continued to ponder in the quiet room and asked the Taoist boys in the hall to each offer corresponding prescriptions, including folk remedies. As long as they were useful, they would be rewarded heavily.
After such a reward was released, there were indeed several enlightening methods that came into Yu Lie's eyes.
But what surprised Yu Lie the most was not the gift from his Taoist boy.
It's that he was obsessed with skinning, and after it circulated in Yaofangtang and Paozuo Hall, it somehow reached the ears of the master of Paozuo Hall.
So a prescription was handed over from the processing hall and delivered to Yu Lie.
This prescription is called "Zhuangfa" and is written on a piece of letter paper with a clear font and a line of small characters:
"The prescription is from the Taoist boy named Fang's storage bag... The bag has been untied, and the items found are in pieces, and I can share them with Taoist friends one or two."
This made Yu Lie look surprised.
It turned out that She Shuangbai had already opened Old Man Fang's storage bag and was now sending him the things in the bag that could be distributed to him.
In addition to this prescription, there were also many other documents that were sent over. They were bits and pieces, and they seemed to be records of Mr. Fang's alchemy and practice.
It is said that when he killed Fang Lao, Yu Lie had already estimated that the value of the items in Fang Lao's storage bag would not be much higher than the altar he obtained. The greatest value was probably in Fang Lao's storage bag.
The bag itself.
As a result, Hall Master She of the Paozuo Hall actually copied a copy of Fang Lao's prescription notes and other items to Yu Lie, and most of them, the other party seemed to be too lazy to copy them, and directly gave the original copy, which really made Yu Lie
Column was surprised.
After receiving such a gift, Yu Lie couldn't help but sigh:
"Hall Master She is a kind person!"
This gift from the other party not only came in time, but also hit the right note for Yu Lie.
To him, the value of this item is the same as that of the "Peel-Skinned Grass Record" that he spent the opportunity to redeem in the library, and may even be slightly more valuable.
Because the "animal making method" in Mr. Fang's hands includes a skill, which is to completely peel off sheep skins, monkey skins, dog skins, etc., and then use secret medicine to apply it on the children's skin like a poultice while it is hot.
body, thereby causing the human body to be defiled by livestock and degraded into a beast.
And the secret medicine that can promote the two different skin membranes to combine with each other is exactly what Yu Lie wants to do and is a great inspiration.
After getting these prescriptions, Yu Lie carefully studied them several times, flicked the letter and said happily:
"My technique can be accomplished!"
He then took a rare step out of the quiet room, personally prepared a thank-you gift, asked Lao Hutou and others to send it to him, and arranged the chores in the prescription hall, then hurriedly returned to the quiet room and performed the natal blood test again.
The great undertaking of refining utensils.
Now, about a month and a half has passed since he decided to start refining blood vessels.
Although the meeting to discuss merit and reward in the town was delayed again and again, Yu Lie was not sure when it would be held again.
He had to hurry up, the storm brewing in the dark was likely to come together with the conference on merit and rewards.
…………………………
On this day, in the quiet room.
The lights were bright, and the pieces of yellow paper were tightly attached to the quiet room, protecting the metal altar in the center.
The talisman shook and a cold light flashed.
On the altar, there was another dark meat coffin placed smoothly.
Yu Lie walked in front of the meat coffin, holding bottles and jars in his hands, which he put into the coffin from time to time.
This meat coffin was made by Yu Lie, who cut off the withered parts of a large piece of Ganoderma lucidum obtained by himself and glued it together with grimace royal jelly. It was the coffin he was going to use to soak himself.
The fleshy Ganoderma lucidum is really a wonderful medicine in alchemy. Yu Lie had already tasted the benefits during the first two times of practicing and refining alchemy. Now that it was a matter of life and blood, he naturally took out this thing again regardless of the cost.
With the "Meat Coffin" as a tool to nourish the body, even if Yu Lie does not have the "Skinned Man Cream" recorded in the Alchemy Notes, assisted by his own black film spell, the effect should be roughly the same, and possibly a little more.
In addition to the meat coffin, flags, fragrant fruits, water purification porcelain bottles and other items were also placed on the metal altar.
Arrangement of these fragmentary things can either facilitate his refining later and be used at will, or they can be arranged in accordance with Feng Shui, which can calm the energy, add beauty, and increase the success rate of Xuan Zhi Xuan as much as possible.
With everything ready, Yu Lie stood in front of the meat coffin and took a deep breath.
Next, he has to peel off the skin to make a book and sacrifice his own blood vessel!
Looking around the quiet room, Yu Lie made sure that the order had been given and the talismans in the quiet room had been placed so that no one would come to disturb him.
He threw away the last jar of medicine in his hand, untied his bun, and walked silently on the metal altar.
In the flickering firelight, Yu Lie raised his head and stretched out his hand, with long pointed nails.
He clicked on his eyebrows and slowly peeled them apart...