Inside the mirage, the alchemy room of Yunxiao Pavilion.
Yun Zhongjun, the head of the Yin Yang family's Jin department, was standing guard in front of the alchemy furnace, his face full of nervousness and excitement.
With his character as an alchemy madman, he could temporarily put aside his anger towards Tianming and the others, and the fact that he had not seen anyone for several days in a row naturally had something to do with the elixir.
As an alchemist, Yun Zhongjun has only one ultimate goal in his life, which is to refine the Immortal Gathering Pill, which represents the highest achievement of yin and yang alchemy.
He worked day and night refining elixirs in the mirage, never for the real-life elixirs and ghost-control elixirs, but to pave the way for the refining of the Immortal Gathering elixir.
Prior to this, Yun Zhongjun had already tried refining the Immortal Gathering Pill many times.
Of course, they all failed.
In Yun Zhongjun's view, Ying Zheng's support for him was relatively limited before, and his failure was entirely due to insufficient proficiency.
The art of alchemy is also a subject that relies heavily on experience, and you have to keep trying to figure out the results.
In fact, if it had not been for the support of Ying Zheng, let alone the Immortal Gathering Pill, even the Ghost Control Pill and the Real Person Pill Yunzhongjun might not have been able to refine Duolisuo.
Herbal medicine is really a rare thing in this era. Without the support of the imperial court, even the Yin and Yang family, one of the hundreds of schools of thought, cannot afford it.
After the Mirage's plan to go to sea was made and immortality was directly related to the art of elixirs, Yun Zhongjun received Ying Zheng's unwavering support, and the level of alchemy began to rise.
This time is another attempt by Yun Zhongjun to use the Immortal Gathering Pill, and this time he feels that he has a great chance of success!
After several days of restless refining, the Immortal Gathering Pill in the alchemy furnace has reached the final stage of becoming a pill.
So far, Yun Zhongjun has not found any signs of failure, so as long as there are no problems with the last step of condensing the pill, he is likely to succeed!
He was about to refine the immortal elixir that would allow people to instantly reach the peak of three flowers and ascend to the realm of immortality!
Of course, Yun Zhongjun doesn't know whether the Immortal Gathering Pill can make people become immortals, because he doesn't even know if there are immortals in this world.
Even though Donghuang Taiyi often told them mysterious things like God's will and destiny, he still didn't really believe it.
But one thing he is certain of is that the Juxian Pill can definitely transform the person who takes it.
You must know that his real-life elixir can greatly stimulate the human body's talent, allowing the strength of the person who takes the medicine to increase rapidly in a short period of time, and the effect is very significant.
The Yin Yang family has so many 'young geniuses', and his elixirs are also indispensable.
Compared with the effect of the Immortal Gathering Pill, there will be a qualitative leap!
When he thought of this, Yun Zhongjun's heart became extremely hot - of course, he did not intend to take the elixir himself and become an immortal and an ancestor.
When it comes to elixirs, Yun Zhongjun has always been very principled, that is, he will never take the elixirs he refined... except for healing and health care.
He has never taken the real person pill, otherwise his strength may not be so good.
Although the temptation of Juxian Pill was countless times stronger, he still did not intend to take it.
First of all, Yun Zhongjun does not have this ambition. He is not too obsessed with improving his personal strength. What he cares more about is alchemy.
Secondly, he does not need to take medicine to increase his strength to improve his status. Being able to refine the Immortal Gathering Pill is enough to make his status extremely solid.
No one in their right mind would scold the cook when they had enough to eat, or kick out the doctor when they were cured.
And the most important point is... he is afraid that taking the Immortal Gathering Pill will affect his alchemy skills.
Refining elixirs is an extremely refined skill that requires Yun Zhongjun to have absolute control and familiarity with his own power.
He was a little worried that after taking the Juxian Pill, he would change too much and seriously affect his alchemy skills.
If this goes astray, I don't know how much time and energy it will take to get back to the top.
In his opinion, his almost success in refining the Immortal Gathering Pill this time was basically due to good luck. If the level of alchemy fluctuates again, the next successful Immortal Gathering Pill may have to wait until the next life.
Therefore, if this furnace of elixir is successful, his plan is to donate it to Ying Zheng after obtaining the permission of Donghuang Taiyi - just as Ying Zheng will come to inspect it in person before the mirage sets sail.
In this way, he can gain more complete trust and support from Ying Zheng.
Yun Zhongjun plans to set his sights on a higher realm of alchemy than the Immortal Gathering Pill.
It didn't exist before because he didn't refine the Immortal Gathering Pill. Now that the Immortal Gathering Pill is about to succeed, he will naturally pursue higher goals.
In this world, one mountain is always higher than the other, so where is the highest peak?
As time went by, Yun Zhongjun, whose face was reddened by the firelight by the fire, became more and more fiery in his heart, but his expression became calmer and more serious.
As the elixir is about to be formed, he must concentrate all his attention, use his true energy to finely control the flames of the elixir furnace, and complete the final condensation of the elixir.
And as the elixir was about to be completed, a faint medicinal aroma began to escape from the elixir furnace.
This faint but refreshing medicinal fragrance was immediately caught by Yun Zhongjun, which made him a little panicked.
Logically speaking, before the elixir is completely finalized and released, the slightest trace of medicinal fragrance should not be leaked.
If the aroma is leaked, the potency of the medicine will most likely be leaked as well, which may very well affect the final effect of the elixir.
What makes Yun Zhongjun's heart even more chilling is that this scent of medicine is just the beginning.
As the first ray of medicinal aroma leaked, more and more medicinal aroma escaped from the alchemy furnace and merged into the air.
Almost in the blink of an eye, the entire alchemy room hall was filled with a strong medicinal fragrance, which continued to escape in all directions.
On the one hand, this made Yun Zhongjun even more panicked, but on the other hand, it also made him feel a little more at ease.
Because he had never experienced such a strong aroma of medicine before when he started making alchemy.
This is not that the fragrance of the elixir is several times or even dozens of times stronger than that of the Ghost Control Pill or the Real Person Pill, but it is an absolute and fundamental difference.
In the past, when the alchemy furnace was opened, the aroma of the medicine would mostly surround the alchemy furnace, and it would be almost dispersed after a dozen breaths at most.
This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! But this time, before the furnace was started, the aroma leaking out before the pill was made was almost so strong that it made him intoxicated, and it was still flowing continuously.
He suspected that he could smell the fragrance of the Immortal Gathering Pill even in his Yunxiao Pavilion bedroom.
This seems to have gone beyond the mere leakage of medicinal fragrance. Perhaps it is the miraculous phenomenon of Juxian Dan itself?
After all, it is a magical elixir that should only exist in legends in theory.
This made Yun Zhongjun feel that maybe he hadn't failed yet.
In fact, Yun Zhongjun completely underestimated the furnace of elixir he was refining.
The medicinal fragrance it leaked was far more than just reaching his bedroom.
The unique and fascinating aroma spread towards the entire mirage ship at an extremely fast speed.
Of course, as the distance increases, the concentration of the aroma begins to plummet, but because it is unique enough, it is still enough to be accurately detected by others.
Fortunately, although there are many people on the mirage, only few are truly qualified to move freely.
No matter whether they are boys or girls, or Yin and Yang disciples, even if they are very curious about the source of this fragrance, they dare not explore it.
Unfortunately, those few people who can move freely are the ones who will really affect Yun Zhongjun.
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On the first deck, Tianming and three people were sneaking around aimlessly on the ship.
Although they have a clear purpose, they have no specific goal and can only be a wanderer trying to get lucky.
Given the size of the mirage, this kind of needle-in-a-haystack operation will naturally be difficult to achieve.
Fortunately, some kind people helped them create a goal.
"Whoosh! Whoosh!" Tianming suddenly arched his nose and took two deep breaths of air, with a searching look on his face, as if he had discovered something.
Seeing this, Shi Lan asked, "What's wrong Tianming?"
Tianming opened his eyes and asked with some confusion, "Don't you smell it?"
Hearing this, Shaoyu couldn't help but complain, "You won't tell me that your sense of smell has suddenly improved and you can smell things that we can't smell, right?"
"I don't know!" Tianming replied blankly, "I just suddenly smelled a very light aroma...a special aroma, very nice!"
"What kind of fragrance...huh?" Shao Yu was a little helpless. He suddenly paused mid-sentence, and then sniffed twice.
At the same time, Shi Lan also closed her eyes and took a deep breath.
"It really smells... it smells really good, it's a bit addictive!" The blind Shaoyu's other senses improved, and he clearly captured the unique aroma in Tianming's mouth, and he was full of praise.
After Shi Lan opened her eyes, she nodded in agreement and asked a question:
"Can you smell what this fragrance is?"
This scent didn't match any type of scent she knew.
It's not a floral scent, not a vegetable scent, not a spice scent, not a rouge gouache scent, it's a little bit close to incense but obviously different.
"Uh..." Shaoyu shrugged decisively, indicating that he didn't know.
This kind of aroma gives people a very mellow feeling, which is very different from any smell that can be associated with the word "fragrance" that he usually comes into contact with, but it also makes people very comfortable.
Shaoyu felt a little familiar, but couldn't remember it at all.
Tianming frowned, bit his nails, and fell into deep thought.
He also felt a little familiar and was recalling where the familiarity came from.
"Hey!" After thinking for a while, Tianming finally had an idea. His eyes lit up and Hammerhand shouted, "It smells like medicine!"
"This aroma has a very faint medicinal smell!"
After Tianming's reminder, Shaoyu also thought about where his sense of familiarity came from, and hurriedly added, "This fragrance is a bit close to the taste of Yun Zhongjun's elixir I took before."
As soon as the two of them said this, Shi Lan also thought that the smell he had smelled in the pharmacy and alchemy room before was indeed a little bit close to this fragrance.
The reason I hadn't thought of before was that the smell in the pharmacy was too strong.
The aroma of the medicine is almost bitter, and if you don't recall it carefully and compare it, you won't notice the slight similarity.
"So... this smell may be related to Yun Zhongjun's elixir?"
"I think 80% of it has something to do with that old guy!" Tianming immediately agreed.
Shao Yu touched his chin, looking thoughtful, "On the mirage, the only one who has something to do with elixirs is Yun Zhongjun."
"But what the hell is he doing? We can smell it... uh, on the deck?"
He wanted to give the specific location, but then he remembered that he couldn't determine the location at all.
Tianming imitated Shao Yu's look and analyzed in a thoughtful manner, "Does it mean that the old thing is very close to us? Or that the source of this fragrance is very close to us?"
"It stands to reason that it shouldn't be too far, right?" Shi Lan said with some uncertainty.
Fragrance cannot travel more than ten or twenty steps. Even if the source is particularly strong, it can only travel a hundred or ten steps at most.
It should be very close to them.
but……
She looked around her surroundings and hesitated.
Although they did not have a clear target, considering that what they heard at dawn was the chirping of birds, they chose to move to an open place to observe the sky.
The environment around them cannot be said to be clear at a glance, but the difference is not big. There are not too many blind spots within a hundred steps.
Best of all, nowhere does it look like there is a precious object emitting this special scent.
Tianming also turned around and looked around at this time, and came to the same conclusion.
After thinking for a moment, he suggested, "How about we try to find the source? If it's not far away."
Shaoyu Shilan also had no objection.
Although the aroma is very light and it is difficult to directly determine the direction of the source, if the distance is not far, you can find it sooner or later by turning in circles.
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Elsewhere on the first deck.
Like Tianming and the others, the infiltrating duo also smelled this sudden aroma of unknown origin.
However, their reactions were not the same.
After Bai Feng thought about it for a while, he sent two spy-winged birds to find the whereabouts of Tianming and the others, and decisively went to find the source of the fragrance.
After some hesitation, Thief Zhi gave up exploring the secret behind the fragrance and still focused on finding the person.
And his current target is the extremely conspicuous Fuso sacred tree located at the core of the mirage.
The place looked very conspicuous and suitable for hiding, so he decided to go there first to see if he could find any clues.
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Inside a cabin in the mirage.
As the fragrance of the Gathering Immortal Pill spread, Concubine Yan seemed to notice something unusual. She moved her eyes away from Qianlong and looked through the window in the direction of Yunxiao Pavilion.
Although there were countless layers of obstacles between the two parties, Concubine Yan's eyes seemed to be able to see through these obstacles and directly see the scene in the alchemy room.
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In the evening and dusk, at the northeast corner of Daze Mountain, a commanding height outside Wangli's camp.
Wang Li, Zhao Bu, and Bai Tu stood on a high place, looking down at the camp of armor-piercing soldiers.
After another round of construction, Wang Li's camp was now quite large. The camp gates, walls, military tents, military supplies, supplies, and equipment were all arranged in an orderly manner.
As a general, Wang Li's ability is not bad, and the losses he suffered before were simply due to underestimating the enemy.
Because he underestimated his enemy, Han Xin was able to perfectly guess every move he made.
All actions were anticipated by Han Xin in advance, and it was difficult for him not to suffer a big loss.
Now, he will no longer underestimate the enemy!
Of course, it's just that he doesn't think he will underestimate the enemy.
"General, the troops have been prepared and ready to go into battle at any time." Zhaobu reported from the side.
Wang Li nodded calmly, "Well... let the scouts search carefully to confirm the location, size, and movements of the enemy's main force."
Zhaobu accepted the order and immediately reminded, "General, the farmers are familiar with the terrain and will most likely adopt night attack tactics."
Wang Li raised his hand and warned seriously, "Be careful and be vigilant."
Hearing this, Bai Tu couldn't help but interjected, "General, those mud-legged peasants still dare to attack the imperial army?"
Wang Li couldn't help but glare at him sideways when he heard this.
Are you really good at anything but flattering me?
