80s Taoism

"How is this thing used?" Back at the residence in the alley, Zhang Jiaohua took the urinal-like alchemy furnace and pondered. "It really looks like a urinal!"

It's a pity that Zhang Jiaohua didn't have any secret books on alchemy techniques, so he had no choice but to give up. Putting the alchemy furnace on the table, the alchemy furnace made a clanging sound.

Zhang Jiaohua looked at the swaying alchemy stove, thinking that he would take it to the Taoism Map to have a look first, then took the alchemy stove in his hand, and a thought appeared in the space of the Taoism Map.

Zhang Jiaohua visualized a wood-saving stove-like structure on the ground fire at the intersection of water and fire, and there was just a place for an alchemy stove on the stove.

This fire is not ordinary, ordinary things will disappear once they are burned on the fire, this alchemy furnace should be more resistant to high temperature, if it is placed on it and burned, there should be no problem, right?

Zhang Jiaohua put the alchemy furnace directly on it while thinking, the ground fire looked very weak, the flames were not glaring at all, and the light was not very strong, but Zhang Jiaohua could feel how powerful the flames could burn everything.

"By the way, I don't know what it will be like to fry tea with this alchemy furnace." Zhang Jiaohua looked at a tea tree beside him, rolled his eyes, and immediately picked a catty or two of tea leaves from the tea tree. The tea leaves in the space of the cultivation map were spotless. Zhang Jiaohua picked the tea leaves and put them directly into the alchemy furnace without cleaning them at all.

The alchemy furnace was baked by the ground fire, but the inside of the furnace was not scorching hot as I imagined, but a special temperature. After the tea was put in, it seemed to dissolve and turned into a sticky mass. Nearly two catties of tea leaves turned into a ball, but the volume was slowly shrinking, and a scent of tea immediately permeated the monastic space. This fragrance is purer and richer than the fragrance of Jasper Immortal Drink.

"How to control this? Get the tea leaves out immediately?" Zhang Jiaohua thought, and the lump of sticky tea leaves was suspended from the alchemy furnace immediately, and its shape moved according to Zhang Jiaohua's thoughts.

Zhang Jiaohua took a bamboo tube and put the completely dissolved lump into the bamboo tube. There were almost two catties of tea leaves, and there were less than two taels left in the end. But Zhang Jiaohua knew that this lump of tea leaves was hundreds of times stronger than Jasper Immortal Drink.

"As expected of an alchemy furnace, its size is big enough. It's not a problem to stuff a dozen or twenty catties of tea into it at a time. Moreover, the refining of this alchemy furnace is controlled by thoughts. One thought can make alchemy." Zhang Jiaohua was very excited when he found some experience for the first time.

But alchemy is definitely not so easy, because alchemy is the aggregation of the medicinal ingredients of various elixir to work together. It is not easy to combine the elixir in the best proportion. What's more, when these elixirs are matched together, some problems of mutual generation and mutual restraint may need to be solved. Moreover, can these elixirs be fused together in the end to form small pills?

Zhang Jiaohua has been thinking about the pill for several days, but he didn't figure out anything. Zhang Jiaohua also went to Panjiayuan several times, but he couldn't find the medicine book he needed every time. Or this kind of book is expensive in the first place, so how could it easily appear in Panjiayuan's booth?

As the new week came, Zhang Jiaohua went to school with her schoolbag on her back. As soon as Xu Xiaoting saw Zhang Jiaohua walk into the classroom, she greeted her.

"My parents said, if you feel that the alchemy furnace is a loss, you can return the alchemy furnace at any time, and the company will return the money to you." Xu Xiaoting was really worried that the alchemy furnace would affect her pure friendship with Zhang Jiaohua.

"Don't worry, this alchemy furnace is of great use to me, and I won't return it."

Not to mention whether or not the alchemy can be refined, the fact that this alchemy furnace can concoct tea leaves is already very worthwhile. Therefore, Zhang Jiaohua didn't feel that he had suffered a disadvantage, but instead felt that he had taken advantage of it.

"Are you really not going to quit?" Xu Xiaoting asked worriedly.

"I really won't quit. If any weird things happen to your auction house in the future, you can tell me anytime. Maybe it will be useful to me." Zhang Jiaohua said.

Xu Xiaoting nodded, "Okay."

Zheng Wendong has never paid attention to Zhang Jiaohua since he fell out with Zhang Jiaohua that day. At this time, he watched Zhang Jiaohua talk to Xu Xiaoting, and he was still watching with cold eyes.

Zheng Wendong snorted coldly in his heart, "Zhang Jiaohua. When I master Qigong, I will fight you one day!"

Zheng Wendong actually still had resentment towards Zhang Jiaohua in his heart, he didn't think about it at all, Zhang Jiaohua had no obligation to teach him the Taoism at all. When Zheng Wendong was thinking like this, he touched a book in his schoolbag from time to time. Without taking the book out of the bag, Zheng Wendong could feel the cold feeling from the book.

It's a pity that Zhang Jiaohua didn't pay attention to Zheng Wendong after that day. There is no animosity at all between the two. It's just that after a quarrel, Zhang Jiaohua didn't regard Zheng Wendong as an enemy.

The book in Zheng Wendong's schoolbag was obtained by him from someone else, who just regarded it as a general ancient book. But Zheng Wendong just glanced at it, and he could see that the book was weird. Immediately, as if he had found a treasure, he began to practice alone.

Zhang Jiaohua returned to the alley after class, and met an acquaintance at the entrance of the alley, it was Hua Shaobo whom he met the last time he went to Xiyun Reservoir.

"Jiaohua, you're back. I didn't answer your phone calls. I couldn't find you. I've been squatting here for a long time." Hua Shaobo complained when he saw Zhang Jiaohua.

"What do you need from me?" Zhang Jiaohua asked puzzled. The two are not close friends, Zhang Jiaohua doesn't understand why Hua Shaobo came here to block him.

"It's something." Hua Shaobo nodded, "Our Xiyun Secret Realm is going to open a square market today. I wonder if Zhang Daoyou is interested in participating?"

"What is Fangshi?" Zhang Jiaohua had never heard of it. I followed the old Taoist master in the dream, and I have never heard of any square market. At that time, communication was not well developed, transportation was inconvenient, and monks were mostly wandering around. Except for some holy places of monasticism that opened markets regularly, how would ordinary casual monks know what kind of markets? Although the old Taoist master is not shallow, he is also a casual cultivator. His status in the monastic world is not very high either. Where is the qualification to participate in the Fangshi of the Martial Arts? So much so that Chengdao's memory doesn't have the concept of Fangshi at all.

Hua Shaobo is a little strange, Zhang Jiaohua has such a high level of Taoism, he has never even heard of Fangshi, isn't it said that he came from the sect? There is no market in the martial arts? Hua Shaobo still patiently gave Zhang Jiaohua a popular science about what is Fangshi.

"Are there books on alchemy in the market?" Zhang Jiaohua is only interested in alchemy now.

"Zhang Daoyou wants books on alchemy?" Hua Shaobo didn't think alchemy was so great. In the era when Taoism prevailed, an alchemist might be a very noble profession. But being an alchemist these days has its uses! There is a lack of spiritual energy, and the elixir is almost extinct. Even the elixir in the secret realm of Xiyun is completely exhausted. Where else are there so many elixir for alchemists to refine alchemy? Isn't this alchemy and alchemy the most tasteless things in the market every time?

"I found an alchemy furnace a few days ago, and I want to try alchemy techniques and alchemy recipes." Zhang Jiaohua said with some embarrassment. That urinal is really embarrassing to take it out to see people.

"Zhang Daoyou wants alchemy and alchemy recipes, which are easy to handle. Now these things are not very rare, and I will get you a set of copy materials for alchemy later." Hua Shaobo said.

"There are copies of this thing?" Zhang Jiaohua widened his eyes.

"Children now learn simplified Chinese characters, and they don't know traditional Chinese characters anymore. Some older materials are more difficult to read, and there are always people who have nothing to do, so they sort out these materials. It is also easy for cultivators to communicate with each other. Later, I will send a set of copy materials to Fellow Daoist Zhang." Hua Shaobo said.

"Do you use money for transactions in the square market?" Zhang Jiaohua asked.

"In the past, we used elixir and spirit stones, but now we basically use money. Spirit medicines are rare in the world, and spirit stones have never been seen before. Many people are ready to give up cultivating the Tao and return to the secular world to become rich. So now the transactions are basically in RMB. But the prices in the market are relatively high." Hua Shaobo said.

"When is Fangshi?" Zhang Jiaohua asked.

"The fifteenth day of this month. Well, that's tomorrow." Hua Shaobo said.

"Tomorrow." Zhang Jiaohua frowned.

"What? Zhang Daoyou can't go because of something?" Hua Shaobo asked.

"I still have class tomorrow." Zhang Jiaohua scratched his head.

Hua Shaobo also chuckled, a master of Taoism went to school with his schoolbag on his back. This situation is really weird. Will ascetics still have to issue diplomas in the future? Bachelor of Taoism, Master of Taoism, Doctor of Taoism... The style of painting is really weird.

Zhang Jiaohua still wanted to go, "I'll ask for a leave first."

Wei Yunlong was very angry when he received Zhang Jiaohua's call asking for leave, but when he thought that the other party was Zhang Jiaohua, he agreed without hesitation. You can't expect geniuses to always be so rigid. Wei Yunlong felt that Zhang Jiaohua's request for leave should be viewed from the perspective of development.

"Have you asked for leave?" Hua Shaobo asked.

Zhang Jiaohua nodded.

Hua Shaobo came here by car. Hua Shaobo drove an imported car, which was atmospheric, comfortable and fashionable. It made Hua Shaobo not look like a monk at all. Zhang Jiaohua thinks that Hua Shaobo is more like a playboy.

Zhang Jiaohua didn't know what a monk should look like. Perhaps it should be as immortal as the old Taoist master. Zhang Jiaohua wouldn't make herself look like an old Taoist master. Dressing like that these days is either a lunatic or a liar.

Zhang Jiaohua cleared out all the books in the schoolbag, took a lot of money from the bank and put them in the schoolbag. The back can be used to hold things bought from Fangshi.

"Actually, you can book a hotel in Fangshi in the future. You don't need to bring money, you can just swipe your card." Hua Shaobo said.

"It should be like this." Zhang Jiaohua also felt that it was too much trouble to carry a schoolbag of money.