Chapter 282: Getting on the Right Track, Difficulties in Cultivation
Time passed, and nearly a month passed in the blink of an eye.
Yu Lie stayed in the elixir shop and closed himself in his own room, which was also the largest alchemy room.
He looked at the alchemy furnace in front of him, which was composed of dense bones. Although the furnace already revealed a mature medicinal fragrance, indicating that the elixir had been successfully refined, there was still no joy on Yu Lie's face.
He frowned slightly.
As soon as the heat arrives.
I saw Yu Lie gently knocking on the bone elixir furnace, and the flower bones bloomed together immediately, and thick juice flowed from it. The color was bright red, the smell was pungent, and there were pills like eyeballs embedded in it, densely packed.
It's very captivating.
Yu Lie stretched out his hand, collected the shriveled pills hanging on the inner wall of the alchemy furnace one by one, put them on the porcelain plate nearby, and shook a copper bell next to it.
The sound of jingling bells rang, and footsteps immediately sounded outside the alchemy room.
Song Danqing has been busy in the alchemy furnace for a long time, and now he is familiar with the work. In addition to welcoming people, he also works as a handyman in the store.
After knocking on the door, he walked in in small steps, and happened to see Yu Lie holding a pill of purple-red elixir, putting it in his mouth to taste it, and frowning deeply.
Song Danqing looked at the pills placed on the porcelain plate.
After taking bad tonic for a while, he already had a preliminary understanding of medicinal materials and elixirs. He recognized that this was a pill called "Grape Beads", which can nourish the true energy and moisturize the body. It is an eighth-grade elixir.
Zhongpo is a superior type.
The raw material is the eyeballs of the grape monkey, mixed with other medicinal materials, and is secretly refined using the blood and flesh elixir method. After being refined, it will naturally become shriveled, like grapes. Just one pill can be sold for five dollars.
The price of a spiritual stone.
According to what Song Danqing knew, Yu Lie had been coming to the elixir shop frequently recently, and he was researching this elixir.
According to Song Danqing's current vision, he found that Yu Lie had obviously refined the pills, and the quality was good. They could serve as the main item for the elixir shop this month and make a lot of money.
But Song Danqing was unsure about Yu Lie's expression. As a last resort, he asked aloud:
"Master, what's the texture of the pills, and what's the price tag?"
Yu Lie took the elixir, and the juice faintly overflowed from his mouth. After swallowing several times, he said casually: "This furnace is of high quality. The price is, so it is better to take one pill and six spiritual stones."
Song Danqing immediately replied: "Okay."
There was joy in his voice.
Song Danqing now regards the store as half of his home, and Yu Lie even acquiesces to him resting in the store, while he is looking after the store, and it can also save him the cost of a hotel.
As for spiritual energy, the store is just so-so, it’s just okay, and it’s enough for Song Danqing’s daily practice.
After learning that two alchemy disciples in the store had been kicked out, Song Danqing was still worried that the store's business would decline. He gave Yu a lot of ideas in private, and even offered to prepare some charms.
Yu Lie allowed it to be sold in the shop.
But in Song Danqing's opinion, the shop's business has never been on track.
Now that he saw Yu Lie successfully refining the eighth-grade elixir, this person had a great understanding of Yu Lie's alchemy skills, and thought to himself: "Brother Yu's alchemy skills, although only one person's, are enough to match
If you are better than the three ordinary people, the business of the shop can be on the right track and it will not be sluggish!"
Thinking in his mind, Song Danqing carefully collected the pills on the porcelain plate into a square jade bottle.
He looked at Yu Lie, who still looked calm and cheerful, and whispered: "Master, is there anything else you need to give me?"
Hearing this, Yu Lie said: "You don't need to call me boss in private. Just call me Yu Lie or Brother Lie."
Song Danqing smiled and nodded, but still bowed.
Yu Lie did not say what he was worried about, but just prevaricated: "By the way, tell me about the things you did, how did you handle them, but you got involved with the snakes and rats in the city?"
When Song Danqing heard this, his voice became even lower: "Back to my boss's house. It's almost time. Since I showed my shop last time, some people have shown signs of being interested. I guess those people are also secretly inquiring about our affairs."
Song Danqing paused and then said: "But in this way, our store has no cover. If someone informs the Dao Palace, will it affect the owner's evaluation five years later?"
Hearing this, Yu Lie had a look of disdain on his face:
"It doesn't matter. Since you want to do business with those snakes and rats, how can you not take some risks? What will happen in five years will be discussed in five years. The first thing is to make money. The ghost market is a channel that must not be given up!"
After explaining, Yu Lie opened his eyes, looked at Song Danqing, and said with a smile: "Maybe Brother Song will have worshiped in the Taoist Palace by then, and you and I will go around together. It won't be a big deal."
Song Danqing cupped his hands and responded: "My boss is joking."
After a few more words, Yu Lie sent Song Danqing out.
The wooden door in the room was closed, and the noise completely disappeared.
Yu Lie came back to his senses. He looked at the Bone Pill Furnace that still had the fragrance of the pills left, but he sighed softly:
"Even if it is an eighth-grade high-grade cultivation elixir, the improvement effect is not very obvious."
After tasting it just now, one pill of grape beads can make his one day of practice worth the ordinary three days of hard work.
This improvement speed is not small.
However, Yu Lie silently calculated that he was still about nineteen years away from thirty years of Taoism. Calculating twenty years, if he wanted to reach the realm of a high-level Taoist disciple within five years, it would take one year.
Improve your Taoism for four years.
In other words, Yu Lie's cultivation speed must be at least four times faster than normal.
And this requires taking away all the chores outside of cultivation, including refining the elixir itself. In this way, with his dedicated hard work, he can break through to the realm of a high-level Taoist disciple within five years, and can try to break through and become a Taoist disciple.
Taoist officials.
After thinking about it, Yu Lie thought to himself: "No, increasing the cultivation speed by four times is not enough. Every time you transform, it will take at least a year before you can undergo the next transformation.
In other words, if I want to transform into a Taoist priest within five years, I have to practice Taoism for twenty years in the next four years!"
As a result, his cultivation speed requirement has been increased from at least four times to at least five times!
The difference is between three and four times, and the difficulty is doubled.
The Grape Pearl elixir that Yu Lie is currently refining is already the most convenient elixir among the prescriptions that he knows so far, which is convenient for him to refine and the most obvious elixir for improving the speed of cultivation.
But the current situation is that the effect of this medicine is far from meeting his requirements.
Even after he breaks through and becomes a middle-level Taoist disciple, Yu Lie will take this medicine again. Not to mention the effect, his own drug resistance is probably extremely high, and he will have to use another medicine.
Yu Lie frowned and couldn't help but think: "It would be great if we could get treasures like Chizhen Secret Sand again!"
It's a pity that treasures such as Chizhen Secret Sand can be encountered but cannot be sought. Next, pills that can directly increase cultivation are also rare.
Yu Lie asked Song Danqing to inquire about it when contacting the black market and conducting business.
It turns out that treasures such as Chizhen Secret Sand will not be circulated in the ghost market at all. Even if you are brave enough to go to the ghost market to sell, you will be targeted by the forces in the ghost market as soon as you sell it.
Purchased at a large price and sold secretly to the public, not even at auction.
For people like Yu Lie who have no connections, if they want to obtain it, they basically have to go to the outer city area in person, collect herbs by themselves, and try their luck.
As soon as the idea of "hitting your luck" arose in Yu Lie's mind, he was immediately rejected by Yu Lie:
"Now that I am a disciple of the Dao Palace and have a family, how can I go out and take risks at will?"
Although he strongly wanted to break through and become a Taoist official within five years, a gentleman would not stand under a dangerous wall. He would go to the outer city areas as little as possible.
Yu Lie thought to himself: "In this case, there is only one last way left."
Ordinary eighth-grade elixirs with little effect were not enough, so the remaining targets immediately focused on eighth-grade elixirs with radical effects and some consequences, or seventh-grade elixirs that only Taoist officials were qualified to take!
What he was thinking about was whether he could revise the radical prescription so that the medicine and poison were incompatible with each other so that the elixir would have no negative effects on him at least, or whether he could personally refine a seventh-grade elixir that was beyond his current level.
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Especially the latter.
The seventh-grade elixir is not sold to the eighth-grade Taoist disciples, but the Taoist disciples refine it themselves and no one knows if they take it themselves.
Moreover, the levels of cultivation in the Immortal Way are very clear, and it is quite difficult to overcome even a small realm within the first level. Being able to refine something beyond one's own level when one's cultivation level is insufficient is already considered to be quite qualified.
And if one can cross a large realm and refine a seventh-grade elixir with an eighth-grade body, even if it is only the lowest among the seventh-grade, it can be regarded as a genius and can be admitted to the Dao Palace without taking the test.
In the middle, he became an outer disciple.
If Yu Lie can refine the seventh-grade elixir, it will not only help him greatly increase his cultivation speed, but also improve his status in the Taoist palace.
Five years later, even if he does not make a breakthrough and becomes a Taoist official, he will still be able to continue to control the situation!
As for where to find extreme prescriptions or seventh grade prescriptions, Yu Lie narrowed his eyes slightly and said to himself:
"It seems that the lecture on Taoism held in March in the Taoist Palace is really not to be missed. I have to make good preparations."
In the Tao lectures, there will be at least one Taoist lecturer.
When the time comes, Dao Palace disciples like Yu Lie can use the spiritual stones and Tao Kung Fu in their hands to exchange exercises, prescriptions and other items from the Dao Palace lecturers.
After Yu Lie passed the assessment, he suddenly got a Taoist skill in his hand.
As for why you don't go directly to the Sutra Pavilion, Pharmacy and other places in the Taoist Palace to exchange it, it's because in the Taoist Palace, the classes are clearly defined, and you can only enter certain places according to your level.
He simply cannot enter the place where the seventh-grade classic is, let alone redeem it.
If you want to obtain it in advance, the only way is to exchange it from a Taoist with lecturer status, and you have to have the other party like you.
The reason why the rules are so cumbersome has no other purpose. On the surface, it is not to allow the disciples to gain something for nothing, not to encourage the students to grow, and they know that Taoism is not taught lightly. In fact, it is just to keep it secret.
Otherwise, since Yu Lie has a relationship with Shouwu worshiping him, he can go to the other party to learn from him while he is still alive, and gain a large number of prescriptions.
It's a pity that most of the prescriptions in Shouwu's hands were made by the other party when they learned them, and they made an oath and contract that they could not be shared with others, not even to their direct bloodline heirs.
The reason why Shouwu was willing to work in the Qianlin Chamber of Commerce despite being a Taoist official was mainly because the Qianlin Chamber of Commerce could provide him with a lot of alchemy techniques in addition to the good salary and in advance.
"That's right." Yu Lie thought about it and suddenly thought: "More than a month has passed. I wonder if Taoist Master Shouwu is alive or dead?"
Within a month, judging from the complexion of Shouwu when he was enshrined, the other party either chose to become a ghost or a god, or died of serious injuries and was already gone.
In the past half month, Yu Lie had neglected many chores in order to study alchemy. Luo Sen was also busy, and the two had not met in private. It was not convenient for him to ask, and he forgot to ask.
With this thought, Yu Lie suddenly felt that he could take a break from refining alchemy, relax and take care of his subordinates.
Not long after, he put away the bone elixir furnace, walked out of the room, and found Luo Sen busy in the shop.
When he asked Rosen, he received an answer that made him relieved but also secretly disappointed.
When Shouwu worshiped him for the last time, he followed Luo Sen's advice and did not choose to dissipate his soul, but became a ghost and god.
It's just that the other party sent a message to Luo Sen. After becoming a god, he can't speak freely, and his whereabouts are still unknown. Although he has trusted the relationship and wants to stay in Daocheng, there is no guarantee that he will do so.
Even if you stay in the Taoist city, you will be called a god but actually a ghost. Many of your blessings will be reduced and you will not be as good as a real Taoist. You must act in accordance with the law. Otherwise, your actual status will be worse than that of a living Taoist.
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However, the other party also told Luo Sen not to be afraid of trouble and just practice hard.
Even if he was separated from the Dao City, within a dozen years, some human relations were still there, which was enough to ensure that Luo Sen could practice safely in the city.
In the shop, Luo Sen leaned over and spoke to Yu Lie:
"Grandpa Shouwu has now resigned, and someone else has been appointed to Qian Lin's alchemy room. Grandpa's current location is a secret matter in the Dao Palace, which is beyond my knowledge."
Yu Lie nodded, cupped his hands and said, "The Taoist Master will definitely be able to stay in the city as he wishes. Please rest assured, sister."
He secretly thought in his heart: "It's called a god, but it's actually a ghost. After becoming a god, you can't help yourself. Is this why Taoist Shouwu doesn't want to become a god?"
However, Yu Lie pondered what Rosen relayed and found that this lack of freedom was just an inability to dominate, and he still had his own intelligence.
Compare this "unfreedom" with a lifespan of 16 years. If I were to choose, I would definitely choose the latter.
After thinking about it for a while, Yu Lie felt that there must be a deeper reason. However, he did not talk to Luo Sen anymore to avoid worrying the other party.
After some pleasantries, Yu Lie left the elixir shop at noon and returned to the mountain gate of the Taoist Palace to practice.
He has obtained a new medicine. Although it is not to his liking, he can only practice with this medicine until there is no alternative.
"Three times the cultivation speed is just so-so."
If this idea were to be known to others, they would secretly spit on him and scold him for being a big dog and not being satisfied.
for the rest of the time.
Yu Lie was immersed in cultivation, and his skill in refining grape beads became more and more refined.
Time flew by again.
Two months later, it was the day when these Taoist disciples could listen to Taoism and study the Dharma for the first time.