Chapter 121: Refining alchemy is like cooking vegetables
Mu Zixi still remembered that after the apprenticeship ceremony in the morning, Mr. Sang secretly said to her, "By the way, you also have a secret senior brother."
secret?
Master actually already has a disciple? I have a senior brother?
If the master is so powerful, then this senior brother must be very powerful too!
Secret... Could it be that he is the kind of person who hides in the dark, keeps secrets, is cold and stylish, and cherishes words like gold, but when he does something wrong, he will touch his head and say "It doesn't matter, you have me" in a magnetic voice.
A strange man?
Wow, this is great!
Mu Zixi was looking forward to it, but after seeing Xu Xiaoshou, she felt that her dream was shattered.
"Xu Xiaoshou, how could it be you?!"
This guy fits what I imagined. He probably only has three words: "strange man", and a bunch of prefixes can be removed.
"What's your name, Xu Xiaoshou? I'm calling you Senior Brother!" Mr. Sang suddenly appeared in front of her and pinched it with his knuckles, causing the little girl to hold her head in pain.
"Hello, senior brother..."
"Being cursed, passive value, +1."
Xu Xiaoshou suddenly became happy, holding his hands behind his ears, "What?"
Mu Zixi's eyes widened and her face turned pale with anger, "Xu Xiaoshou, don't go too far!"
Boom!
Sang Lao pressed down another finger at the right moment, and Mu Zixi's eyes filled with tears: "Hello, senior brother!"
"Very good." Xu Xiaoshou immediately laughed.
He was still surprised that his junior sister was Mu Zixi.
The first time we met this girl was in the ring. The violent girl almost blew him up, and her control was very good. If she hadn't taken such a greedy bite at the end, she would have been sent out of the ring without knowing it.
However, she is obviously not born with a physical body, so why would Mr. Sang accept her as his disciple?
Xu Xiaoshou was very curious.
Mr. Sang didn't care so much. He waved and said: "Everyone, please sit down."
After saying that, he took out his big three-legged bathtub. As soon as this thing came out, Mu Zixi was startled.
"What does it look like?" Xu Xiaoshou was slightly interested and asked as he came closer.
Sang Lao's movements were stagnant and he did not look back, but his attention was obviously temporarily focused here. He was still worried about the last time Xu Xiaoshou said that his alchemy cauldron was like a bathtub!
"This thing?" Mu Zixi looked hesitant and said after a moment of hesitation: "Like... an alchemy cauldron?"
Mr. Sang suddenly became happy and glared at Xu Xiaoshou fiercely. Just as he was about to speak, the little girl continued: "But don't you want to make elixirs? What are you doing with this bathtub?" Her eyes were wary.
"puff!"
Xu Xiaoshou burst out laughing, "Look, I just said this thing looks like a bathtub, old man, you still don't believe me?"
"If he hadn't had three legs..."
His voice became smaller and smaller, because the old man's eyes that could kill were staring at him viciously.
Xu Xiaoshou touched his head in ridicule, turned to Mu Zixi and lectured: "Alchemy! This is Danding! You don't have any eyesight at all!"
Mu Zixi rolled her eyes: "Do you think I'm stupid?"
Old Sang's eyelids twitched twice, and he said sullenly: "This is indeed an alchemy cauldron!"
"Well……"
Three question marks slowly appeared on the little girl's pretty face, and she turned around and glared at Xu Xiaoshou fiercely.
"Being cursed, passive value, +2."
"Okay, stop talking nonsense! I will make a furnace of elixirs first, and you guys will see how much you can learn." Mr. Sang rolled up his sleeves.
The large bathtub was placed under the big red bead on the head. Old Sang stretched out his hand, and the milky white surface immediately began to heat up and turn reddish.
Mu Zixi poked her head curiously and said, "Is it red?"
Xu Xiaoshou glanced at Mr. Sang who was refining the alchemy. The old man obviously had no intention of explaining. As a senior fellow apprentice, he consciously shouldered this responsibility.
He pointed at the void below the cauldron, "Did you see it?"
"What?" Mu Zixi tilted his head and rubbed his eyes, unable to see the reason, "Air?"
Xu Xiaoshou: "..."
"Jinzhao Tianyan, the old man should have told you this!" He suddenly realized something. He had the passive skill "Perception", but this little girl didn't!
"Look with your spiritual mind."
After the cultivation level breaks through the Yuanting realm among the three innate realms, a Yuanting realm will be opened up in the brain, and spiritual thoughts will be born.
The function of this thing is similar to "perception", except that it must be used actively. The only passive effect it has is probably danger warning.
Mu Zixi scanned it with his spiritual thoughts and saw the invisible flames shining under the cauldron, and he was immediately amazed.
"Plop!"
Mu Zixi was startled by the sudden temperature. When she lowered her head, she immediately saw Xu Xiaoshou putting a hand under her face, with the invisible flame above it!
So will he?
Fang wanted to exclaim a few words to ease the tense relationship between the two, but unexpectedly there was a teasing voice in his ears.
"Haha, you can't!"
Xu Xiaoshou retracted his hand happily, "It's okay, senior brother will teach you later!"
Mu Zixi was so angry that his teeth itched, damn Xu Xiaoshou!
"Being cursed, passive value, +1."
Xu Xiaoshou felt happy in his heart. In the past, when he faced Mr. Sang, he was so frightened that he didn't dare to take advantage of him. As a result, his passive value did not increase at all.
Now that we have an additional junior sister, it will be much more fun.
They are all passive values, this mosquito meat is also meat, don’t be afraid of a little increase, just be afraid of it accumulating over time!
Sang Lao was very focused when he was refining the alchemy. Even when he was simply warming up the alchemy cauldron, he did not speak.
Xu Xiaoshou had seen him refining alchemy once, so he naturally knew this. He continued to use the knowledge in his mind, pointing to the big bathtub with a sense of mission and explaining: "Did you see, this process is called 'warming'."
"When making elixirs, you can't just do it all at once. It's just like cooking. Even if you don't need to add oil, we still have to heat the pot."
The corner of Mr. Sang's mouth twitched. This metaphor is really vivid, but why does it feel a bit priceless... I am refining an elixir!
Mu Zixi looked suspicious, but seeing that Mr. Sang didn't refute, a look of surprise appeared on his face.
"Under suspicion, passive value, +1."
"Being admired, passive value, +1."
"Being cursed, passive value, +1."
Hmm? Curse?
This damn old man gave it to me?
Xu Xiaoshou nodded with satisfaction and watched Mr. Sang start to make other moves... He grabbed a handful of herbs from the ring and started throwing them into the pot, repeating the process over and over again.
This kind of operation shocked the little girl. How can you refine it with so many herbs?
Of course Xu Xiaoshou knew what she was thinking. He was also shocked when he saw it for the first time.
"No doubt, this is alchemy."
"Of course novices can't do this, but the old man is very strong and can multi-task. He can separate the tasks and attack them on multiple fronts."
"This is not important!"
Xu Xiaoshou searched for the knowledge in his mind and began to explain in real time: "Did you see it? That is the silver frost flower, which is cold in nature and bitter in taste, but tastes very sweet; that is the green deer fruit, which is very fragrant and delicious..."
"There is also the apple grass, which was used to feed..."
"Ahem!"
It's easy to say...
"In short, adding up all these things, it is not difficult to guess that what is to be practiced is..." Xu Xiaoshou suddenly looked weird, why did he push it out?
"Yuan Ting Dan?"
He looked at Mr. Sang, and the damn old man nodded approvingly. This...
Xu Xiaoshou deceived himself and failed to even see that many of the "suspicious" contributions made by Mu Zixi in the information column were changed into "admired".
This "cooking proficiency" is a bit awesome. Can you use the medicinal properties of the ingredients to deduce the elixir that can be made by combining them together?
However, my "Culinary Proficiency" is only acquired at lv.6, how can I launch a seventh-grade elixir? A seventh-grade elixir is already an innate elixir!
Is it possible...
"The innate elixirs are not all composed of innate elixirs, but are innate and acquired medicinal materials mixed together, then refined with special techniques, and finally condensed into elixirs?" Xu Xiaoshou asked.
Mr. Sang couldn't help but look sideways, surprised that Xu Xiaoshou could realize so much.
This is very different from the first time we met, where we only saw "you are making alchemy" and "this is actually an alchemy cauldron"!
Xu Xiaoshou received the affirmation, clenched his fist excitedly, turned to his junior sister and said, "I'll just say it!"
"Alchemy is like cooking. You don't need many good ingredients. As long as the technique and heat are in place and supplemented with seasonings, you can achieve the goal."
He pointed at the large bathtub and said, "Look here, you can make a delicious pot of stew even if you stew it randomly!"
Old Sang shook his hand and almost exploded the furnace.