Chapter 14: Purchasing medicines and trying the bone-washing and marrow decoction for the first time
"So what if I mention it? Can Bai Yulou really cover the sky in Qingxuan Sect with one hand?"
Upon hearing this, Zhenjun Ziyang snorted coldly, and then walked out with a puff of sleeves. When he was about to return to the cave, he suddenly turned to look at the bronze mirror behind him and said: "The next lecture is cancelled, and I will be in seclusion for three years this time.
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After saying this, his figure flashed away at the entrance of the cave.
"Why bother?"
A helpless sigh came from the bronze mirror.
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Let’s go back to Qingzhu Residence.
"Huh...still doesn't work..."
Xu Taiping, who had been sitting on the bed and practicing Qigong for a long time, suddenly let out a long sigh.
After listening to Zhenjun Ziyang's sermon, it happened to be noon, which was a good time to practice the Cangxia Sutra. Xu Taiping began to practice according to the insights he had heard today.
Unexpectedly, after trying hard for a whole hour, I still failed to guide the spiritual energy of heaven and earth into the body and refine it into true energy according to the description in the "Remnant Clouds Sutra".
"It seems that we can only rely on Fairy Lingyue's prescription."
Xu Taiping wiped the sweat from his forehead and said with some reluctance.
This attempt allowed him to truly understand the difficulty of practicing the White Bone Qualification.
Thinking of this, he had already made up his mind and took out the bronze mirror again and placed a merit coin on it.
"Qingzhu lives in Xu Taiping, why are you looking for me?"
The voice of the mirror spirit sounded from the bronze mirror.
"Lord Xuanjing, I want to buy a batch of medicinal materials and herbal seeds."
Xu Taiping replied.
"At your current level, you can only buy medicinal materials and seeds from the Baicaotang at the foot of the mountain. These are the herbal items of the Baicaotang. After you select them in the mirror, a spiritual bird will deliver them to your courtyard."
As the mirror spirit spoke, a list of herbal medicines began to appear on the bronze mirror.
"Thank you, Master Xuanjing."
After Xu Taiping thanked him, he began to search carefully.
After spending a stick of incense, Xu Taiping finally gathered together the medicinal ingredients for Lingyue Fairy's prescription. In order to prevent others from seeing the prescription, he also added a few more less valuable medicinal ingredients, and also added some medicinal ingredients.
Some manipulations were done to the weight.
As for the medicinal seeds in the medicine garden, he only chose the "Nine-leaf Perilla" variety and bought enough seeds to be planted three times on three acres of land.
He had a reason for choosing this.
According to the records about the planting of medicine gardens in the jade slip that passed down the power, the leaves, stems and fruits of Perilla purpurea can be used as medicine. The leaves can be eaten as high-quality vegetables. The seeds are also the cheapest among all elixirs.
It is easy to grow, and the cycle from germination to fruiting is only three months. Yunlu Mountain is like spring all year round, and can be planted three times.
The only drawback is that the selling price is too low.
Under normal circumstances, only thirty Qingxuanzong merit coins can be exchanged for each acre of Nine-leaf Perilla per acre, which is far lower than the income from other elixirs.
You must know that in Qingxuan Sect, each outer sect registered disciple needs to turn in one hundred and twenty merit coins every year.
Under normal circumstances, even if Taiping planted all three acres of medicine fields with nine-leaf perilla, he would not be able to collect the merit that needs to be handed over to the sect in the end.
But with the formation arranged by Fairy Lingyue in the medicine field, everything is different.
According to Fairy Lingyue, the harvest of the medicine field where the small spirit gathering array is arranged will triple within three years, so it is most cost-effective for him to plant nine-leaf perilla.
"If nothing else goes wrong, three acres of medicinal fields and nine-leaf perilla planted in three seasons can be exchanged for at least 270 merit coins. In addition to the cost of 20 merit coins and the 12% annual payment,
0 merit coins, I can still have 130 left, so I can buy better medicinal seeds next year, and maybe some more will be used to buy exercises and talismans."
After Xu Taiping paid the money to Bronze Mirror, he picked up a pen and paper and wrote down the accounts seriously.
"After buying the medicinal materials and seeds, I only have three merit coins left. Fortunately, I have bought a tank of rice in the rice tank, and there is enough oil and salt. When the time comes, I will set some traps in the mountains to hunt some game, and it should be able to
Support until the maturity of the nine-leaf perilla in the first season.”
While he was keeping accounts, he was calculating in his mind.
One of the big reasons for choosing Nine-leaf Perilla as the seed is that it matures quickly, allowing him to quickly exchange merit within three months for medicinal materials used in cultivation.
As for the true fire talisman needed for burning seeds, he asked Jing Ling yesterday, and the answer he got was that it must be a year before he can buy items such as talismans, and even the most common true fire talisman costs the same.
He couldn't afford more than a thousand merit coins in a short period of time.
"Well, after we have a harvest, we have to think about saving money to buy the True Fire Talisman."
Xu Taiping made another note in the account book.
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The next evening. .??.??
A gray crane, a spiritual bird, stopped in front of Xu Taiping's small courtyard with a large package in its mouth.
The seeds and medicinal materials purchased by Xu Taiping finally arrived.
After paying a merit coin to Gray Crane with some heartache, Xu Taiping walked into his bedroom carrying the medicinal materials.
At this time, there was a bathtub filled with hot water in his bedroom.
This is exactly what he prepared in advance to make medicine.
"The recipe given by Fairy Lingyue said that the ingredients of this medicinal material are ordinary. If you want to exert the effect of the medicine, you must add the medicinal materials according to the time and order mentioned on the recipe."
After sorting the medicinal materials and re-weighing them using the old steel scale in the house, Xu Taiping stood in front of the bathtub and secretly recalled the order and time of putting the medicinal materials in.
"It should be fine."
After a moment, Xu Taiping nodded secretly, as if to encourage himself.
Then he picked up a piece of medicinal materials placed on oil paper, poured them all into the steaming bath, and then began to count silently with his fingers: "8, 7, 6..."
When the countdown reached 1, Xu Taiping quickly poured the second batch of medicinal materials on the table into the bathtub.
As the second portion of the medicinal ingredients was poured in, the hot water in the bathtub suddenly began to bubble, followed by bursts of a fragrant orchid-like musk scent.
"It seems that I put it correctly."
Xu Taiping looked delighted, and then poured in another pack of medicinal ingredients.
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After a stick of incense.
When all the medicinal materials were poured into the bath according to the instructions on the prescription, Xu Taiping only saw that the originally clear hot water in the bath had turned into a thick white slurry.
"The medicinal soup is as white as jade in color and as thick as pulp, just like what the prescription says."
Xu Taiping breathed a sigh of relief.
At least from the outside, the bone-cleansing and marrow-removing soup he prepared was a success.
Immediately, Xu Taiping quickly took off his clothes, revealing his lean body, and turned over naked to soak in the bone-cleansing and marrow-cleansing soup.
"Tsk, tsk, tsk..."
Perhaps because of the potency of the medicine, even after the time of burning the incense, the medicine in the bathtub was still very hot. Xu Taiping was so hot that he couldn't help but grin.
If it weren't for the fact that the prescription instructions said that the efficacy of the medicine would be greatly reduced if you left the medicine in the middle, he would have jumped out of the bathtub by now.