Chapter 129: Simple and crude alchemy, gold becomes, mercury dies
In a hut in Zhongnan Mountain, the lights are dim, the alchemist is tied up, the servants holding daggers, shadows with teeth and claws, and angry faces.
"Master Wang, I see you don't shed tears when you see the coffin..."
Cheng Bi, who had a jujube face, looked at the calm-faced alchemist in Taoist robes before him, and suddenly became angry. He gritted his teeth and his heart pounded. He raised the dagger in his hand and slashed at the Taoist priest's arm.
"I have to give you some color today..."
Seeing the dagger chopped off by Cheng Bi, even the tied-up alchemist couldn't help but reflexively close his eyes as if he was dead.
At this moment, a white light suddenly shot in from the window and circled around Cheng Bi's arm holding the dagger. In an instant, Cheng Bi felt a sharp pain in his arm.
"ah……"
Amidst the shrill shouts, his arm holding the dagger fell directly from his body and fell to the ground with a thud.
Cheng Bi's scream suddenly reached his ears, which made the tied Taoist priest open his eyes in confusion.
Then under the dim light of the hut, he was surprised to find an ancient tripod-shaped sword hanging in the air in front of him and Cheng Bi, its snow-white blade shining coldly under the light.
"Flying sword?"
The alchemist then looked down, and saw that Cheng Bi, who had been showing his teeth and claws just now, was kneeling on the ground, covering his arm with one hand, and let out a miserable howl, and blood flowed from his fingers.
The drops dripped down and fell on the floor of the hut.
There was also a bloody severed hand on the floor, holding a dagger.
The Taoist priest blinked, as if he hadn't reacted yet...
Am I being rescued?
Snap!
The door of the hut was pushed open, and a clear voice rang in the house.
"Those who hurt others will always be hurt. Since Mr. Cheng Sanwa failed to rob someone and wants to chop off other people's arms, I guess you don't mind having your own arms chopped off."
The next moment, the Taoist priest who was tied to the ground saw a young Taoist priest wearing a white Taoist robe, shaking a whisk, walking in from the door of the hut, smiling at the two of them, and shaking a hand in his hand.
A piece of paper with a portrait on it.
"Do you think Pindao is right? Mr. Cheng Sanwa from Hegang Village, Zhongnan Mountain, Chang'an County."
"Demon...demon way..."
Cheng Bi, who was holding his arms and shaking in pain, suddenly exclaimed when he saw the Taoist priest in white, and rolled and crawled towards the corner of the room as if he saw a ghost. He moved sideways.
After a while,
"You actually dare to say that a poor Taoist is a demon. Cheng Sanwa, you are very courageous..."
Kong Qing, a Taoist priest in white, shrugged his shoulders, made a sword gesture, and a black stick flew out of his sleeve, hitting Cheng Sanwa as he shouted in horror.
Crack!
"Ahhhhh..."
When the black stick stabbed his body, Cheng Bi's screaming figure suddenly became high and low, which was very scary.
Kong Qing then used his hand, and the ancient bronze sword suspended in the air turned into a sword light, lightly spinning around the sorcerer on the ground who was tied up with five flowers, and then flew back to the scabbard behind him.
"Brother Taoist, please get up first!"
The alchemist moved his body and found that the rope that tied him was broken. He got up from the ground in a somewhat embarrassed manner and saluted Kong Qing.
"Warlock Wang Chang, thank you Dao Brother for your help."
"I am a poor man, but I am the master of the imperial palace in Chang'an... Mr. Cheng Sanwa, you are too noisy."
A look of disgust flashed across Kong Qing's face, he snapped his fingers, and a blue light flashed on the black stick on one side.
Crackling...
A burst of electric sparks flashed, and Cheng Bi, who was screaming, rolled his eyes and fell to the ground, unconscious.
"It's much better now!"
Seeing Cheng Bi's miserable appearance, the alchemist Wang Chang showed a look of unbearability on his face. He rummaged through the box and found an old piece of clothing, squatted down and helped Cheng Bi bandage the wound on his broken arm.
"Fellow Daoist Wang, you are really kind-hearted..."
Looking at Wang Chang's actions, Kong Qing said in a teasing tone, "Can you even forgive someone like this who just wanted to chop off your arm?"
"Although he did have evil intentions just now, he has followed a certain family for more than ten years, so I still can't bear to make my Taoist brother laugh..." Wang Chang helped Cheng Bi bandage it, then stood up and tidied it up.
His Taoist robe answered very calmly.
"And it's not entirely his fault that he has evil intentions. He has been poor since he was a child, so I shouldn't have given him so much gold to test him..."
As he spoke, Wang Chang shook his head again and sighed.
"Sigh... I also misjudged human nature. The art of alchemy is taboo after all. Maybe this is my fate!"
"If this Cheng Bi is your doomed brother, Taoist brother," Kong Qing saluted Wang Changji, "then I would like to congratulate you, Taoist brother, for your escape."
"probably!"
Wang Changshen nodded in agreement. "By the way, Brother Dao, you came in just now and announced Cheng Bi's name in one breath. Do you know him already, Brother Dao?"
"Pindao doesn't know him, but he knows this..."
As he spoke, Kong Qing flipped his wrist and revealed a piece of red gold.
"Some time ago, Pindao discovered this kind of gold after enlightenment, so he traced it, and finally found that the gold came from a man named Cheng Sanwa... Oh, he was renamed Cheng Bi."
"Yes, this is the gold refined by a certain person."
Wang Chang casually glanced at the gold in Kong Qing's hand and immediately nodded affirmatively.
"Because Cheng Bi's mother passed away some time ago, so I gave him some gold to bury her, but I didn't expect that he ended up being obsessed with money... Alas, it sounds like I was short-sighted..."
Kong Qing nodded casually, as if listening to Wang Chang's explanation.
But in fact, Kong Qing didn't need the other party to explain at all, because he looked at the profiles of Wang Chang and Cheng Bi and figured out the cause of the matter before taking action.
Now I am wasting my time chatting with Wang Chang, but Kong Qing is just curious about the golden touch that turns copper into gold, and wants to steal Wang Chang's master by relying on identification skills.
As the saying goes, if you have many skills and don't overwhelm yourself, if you learn the Midas Touch, when Qingdu Guan is in urgent need of money in the future, you can make a fortune by yourself.
Anyway, Wang Chang's life was saved by Kong Qing just now. Learning his alchemy is just a reward.
"This is not...this is not...this is not..."
Kong Qing pretended to be attentive, and while listening to Wang Chang's words, he quickly poked at the opponent's panel with his spiritual mind.
"Well, I found it... First, throw the scrap copper into the alchemy furnace for refining. Is it better to build a casserole here? The alchemy furnace is obvious... Then start stirring... Keep stirring... Just stir, stir, it's that simple
Is that... Next, take out the golden cinnabar and throw it into the copper water. Wait, what is this golden cinnabar? Finally, continue to stir, and when the copper water cools down, it will turn into gold."
Looking at Wang Chang's simple and crude alchemy process on the panel, Kong Qing looked confused.
"Is the so-called turning copper into gold so simple? As long as there is golden cinnabar, it doesn't require hands... It seems that the key is this golden cinnabar... I have to find out how to refine this cinnabar... OK, I found it...
...First put the mercury into the alchemy furnace...stir...continue to stir...then add the pure Yang stone, and then stir again...dang dang dang, the golden cinnabar is refined."
The corners of Kong Qing's mouth twitched silently.
Who can tell him what this Pure Yang Stone is?
"Forget it, there's no point in watching this guy's alchemy process... Just stir, stir, stir... Pindao should look for the formula of the golden cinnabar he got back then to determine what this Pure Yang Stone is... Find the formula...
...There is no such keyword...By the way, Taoist books, it should be Taoist books...Look for Taoist books...There is..."
After a search, Kong Qing successfully found the scene where Wang Chang obtained Taoism when he was young. The person who gave him the alchemy Taoist book was... an old man with a strange appearance.
"Hey, isn't this the Taibai God?"
Kong Qing used his spiritual mind to click on the triangle in the center of the opponent's panel, and then the conversation between the young Wang Chang and Taibai God came to his mind.
"When gold succeeds and mercury dies, is there really such a thing?"
"nature!"
Taibai God's body twisted, his clothes and sleeves swayed in the wind, fluttering as if he would fly in the next moment.
The corners of Kong Qing's mouth twitched.
Why does this posture look so familiar to him...
Then Kong Qing saw Taibai God make a pose, and then answered with a serious face.
"Gold is born from mountain rocks. It is also the essence of mountain rocks at the beginning, and becomes mercury after thousands of years. The mercury receives the energy of Taiyin, and it flows and does not solidify. When it encounters the energy of pure Yang at the slightest moment, it turns into gold in a flash. Now if we use
If mercury wants to turn into gold, it must be in the mountains. If it is not in the mountains, it will not turn. But when it encounters pure yin stones, it will turn into gold. I have a book, please don't doubt it if you accept it!"
Kong Qing blinked silently.
Is Taibai God bullying Wang Chang because he doesn't know much about chemistry? Mercury can turn into gold when it encounters pure Yang energy. It must be turned into gold in Zhongnan Mountain, but not outside Zhongnan Mountain... Wait, didn't that say above?
Is it pure yang energy? Why did it become a pure yin stone below? What is the pure yang stone? It’s such a mess, and you still accept it without questioning...
Is the co-authored gold raised by your Zhongnan Mountain God family?
etc!
Kong Qing touched his chin with his hand.
Maybe this gold is really raised by Taibai God’s family. After all, Taibai God’s body is a spirit in the refined form of Venus...
So it is understandable that Wang Chang's alchemy process is so simple and crude, and that it must be melted in the mountain and not melted if it is not in the mountain.
Because the foundation of his alchemy is actually Taibai God, who is the incarnation of the essence of Venus.
When Wang Chang was refining gold in Zhongnan Mountain, Taibai God would secretly help him, so he could practice it. As for other places, without Taibai God, Wang would definitely fail to refine gold cinnabar with mercury.
But the problem is that Taibai Shen spent so much effort just to help Wang Chang touch gold and make him feel like he has become an alchemist?
What does he want?
Kong Qing scratched his head, feeling that something still didn't make sense.
He opened the other party's profile again and searched quickly in the future.
"This guy was supposed to die today, but after being helped by Pindao, the future changed. Let me see... what did this guy do after surviving Cheng Bi's death? He went down the mountain to help.
Poor people, after spending all their money, go back to Zhongnan Mountain to refine gold, and then continue down the mountain to help the poor... There is nothing strange about it, this guy is a good person in the traditional sense..."
Kong Qing raised his head again and looked at Wang Chang, who was fanning a fire and boiling water next to the stove in the thatched hut, and was talking nonchalantly.
Could it be that God Taibai really had a kind heart?
"Brother Dao..."
After the water boiled, Wang Chang poured a bowl of water for Kong Qing and asked with concern.
"Why did you come to Zhongnan Mountain so late? Is there something wrong?"
"Pindao serves in the Taishi Bureau. This time he came to Zhongnan Mountain to kill a spirit and rescued some women who were kidnapped by him." Kong Qing said casually. "When I came back, I lost my way due to the earthquake. It happened to be
I passed by Brother Wang."
"Surprisingly, there are people-capturing spirits here in Zhongnan Mountain. I haven't noticed it before..." Wang Chang did not doubt that he was there, and said casually while rummaging through boxes and cabinets nearby. "But it's not far from Yigu Road here. From...
Go out to the alchemy room and walk east, you will be there soon."
While Wang Chang was talking, Kong Qing looked through his profile again, but still couldn't find the reason why Taibai God worked hard on him.
"Forget it, I won't look for it if I can't find it..."
Kong Qing shook his head and turned off the other party's panel helplessly.
"Perhaps Taibai Shen really thought that this guy was a good person, so he helped him."