Beauty Comprehensive 1999

Chapter 8 The true fragrance spectrum, keep a low profile and bide your time

In fact, the original Xie Zihao usually had breakfast in the cafe downstairs of his home, but Xie Zihao who came through time travel was a little unaccustomed to this kind of Western-style simple meals. After eating it twice, he found it hard to swallow. He was more used to soy milk, fried dough sticks, and tofu.

Steamed dumplings, lean meat porridge and other Chinese-style breakfasts.

In addition, the cafe was rented out and moved a week ago. This was decided before he traveled through time, so now he can't eat anything he wants.

Of course, as an urban area where more than 60% of the people are Chinese, Pasadena where he is located naturally has restaurants that serve Chinese food, and it is different from the Chinese food in Chinatown in Los Angeles that has been modified for tourists.

.The Cantonese-style morning tea, Chaozhou cuisine and Sichuan cuisine here are all famous because in the early years, the southeastern coastal areas had the most immigrants.

It's just a bit far from the street where he lives, so Xie Zihao usually buys materials during this period and takes the time to make some semi-finished products by himself, freezes them in the refrigerator, and cooks some in the morning or when he's hungry at night.

This is also a habit I developed after living alone for several years in my previous life.

Although the relocation of the coffee shop did not affect his breakfast, it also made Xie Zihao financially strapped after traveling through time.

Although the new tenant has been settled and will probably move in soon, there will be a gap in rent for a period of time during the transition period between the old tenant and the new tenant. Coupled with Xie Zihao's huge expenditure on spiritual practice, it is even more difficult

This makes the already poor savings even worse.

This is one of the reasons why Xie Zihao chose to be a street hero to "fight criminals" because the cost of the main materials for his current practice is too high for him.

What he had previously lit in the incense burner was his homemade incense pills, called Huan Zhen Xiang, which was one of the Xie family's ancestral "Jiang Zhen Xiang Pu".

This book of Jiangzhen Incense is said to be the inheritance of the Wenxiang Sect of the pre-Ming Dynasty. Of course, based on the fragments revealed by Xie Zihao from his ancestor’s notes, it is believed that most of these incense recipes are from the Xie family’s ancestors who were exterminated by the imperial court due to rebellion.

They were collected from the escaped Wenxiang Sect disciples or their descendants, and some of them may have been coerced and lured.

However, the guys from the Wenxiang Sect are not good people either. They are best at inciting people to rebel, so Xie Zihao doesn't have any psychological burden when using them. We are all bandits when they encounter robbers, let alone the eldest brother, let alone the second brother.

After traveling through time, he experimented with the configuration methods of several strange fragrances recorded on the incense book, and found that the effect was very good. Combined with the secret method inherited by the Xie family, it has a miraculous effect in assisting spiritual practice. It is a must for practicing at home and traveling around the world.

thing.

It's just that the materials are too expensive. After all, many ordinary spices are not cheap, especially some of the expensive varieties.

Illusion incense, also called mirage incense, as the name suggests, according to incense records, it is an auxiliary substance that can be used to perform illusions, blindfolds and other spells, because the formula must contain natural pearl powder, benzoin, and ambergris from previous years.

Materials such as agarwood, mica powder, datura leaves, millet shells, and hyacinth seeds were contraband in a previous life. Xie Zihao's family only had a few pills passed down from the past. It is said that they will have a slight hallucinogenic effect when lit.

Xie Zihao recreated it in this world and found that this incense was used to carry the power of the caster's faith and turned it into incense. The power of faith was sacrificed to the paper-making substitute, which was much easier to use than ordinary incense.

The so-called incense faith is an extraordinary power composed of two parts: incense and faith.

Incense is a medium that carries trust. Before "incense and candle ingots" were invented in China, ancient shamans, Taoist priests and other clergy and ordinary people used to burn incense sticks or sacrifices to worship the gods.

with the ancestors, but that was inefficient and expensive. Each ceremony wasted money and money, and could easily shake the foundation of the ruler. Therefore, with the development of the times, various simple substitutes gradually evolved, and in the end

With the development of the times, incense, candles and ingots have become daily offerings to ghosts and gods.

In fact, in Western religions, essential oils, aromatherapy, holy water and other items are also used as belief-carrying media.

As for the power of faith, it is the so-called power of belief and will. It is the power generated by the thoughts of all beings. Individually, it is very weak, but when gathered together, it will form a powerful force, powerful enough to turn illusion into reality and illusion.

interfere with reality.

The reason why he chose to configure the higher-grade and expensive Huan Zhen Incense instead of the ordinary incense used to worship gods is because although the materials of Huan Zhen Incense are more expensive, it is easier to configure than ordinary incense.

Xinxiang requires three steamings and three dryings, and some materials need to be dried slowly in the shade. It takes at least ten and a half months to make a batch, and some complex incense recipes often take months.

Although the ingredients of Huanzhenxiang include old natural pearl powder, benzoin, ambergris, agarwood and other precious materials, it only needs to be lightly stir-fried over low heat and then mixed with rootless water and dried in the shade to form pills, which is rare.

The heat and proportions, but the time can be at least ten times shorter than that of ordinary incense, and it can be made in only three days at most.

It's just that the materials are not cheap. Among them, the most expensive ambergris is an expensive perfume raw material, but when sold in grams, ordinary products are more expensive than gold. Although the dosage is small, it still makes Xie Zihao's wallet bleed.

For Xie Zihao, who was pressed for time and eager to master the power of self-preservation in this strange world, he would rather spend more money than waste time.

If it weren't for the fact that another fragrant recipe passed down from the family, the 'avoiding evil incense', requires the use of rhino horn, a rare material produced by protected animals that is difficult to buy even with money, and the anti-evil incense is too offensive, it would not be suitable as a product of faith.

He was planning to make this kind of anti-evil incense.

Because the preparation time of this fragrant recipe is the shortest among all the fragrant recipes he knows, and the slowest only takes less than half a day to complete.

In his previous life, Xie Zihao only regarded Jiangzhen Incense Pu as a craft of making incense, and there were many shops selling handmade incense on a certain treasure, which seemed to be overwhelming. So he didn't take it seriously.

At present, whether it is the various fragrant recipes recorded in the Jiangzhen Incense Book or the secret techniques passed down by the Xie family, it costs a lot of money to practice and study them, so how to make money has become his top priority.

At that time, an old street crime movie happened to be playing on TV, which gave him the idea of ​​finding some money to spend from the criminals who spread all over the urban area in the darkness of Los Angeles.

The more I thought about it, the more I realized that this approach was very feasible. After all, Los Angeles is known as the "Sin City" among the federal people and is a place where gangs gather.

"What's more, getting some money from those villains can not only combat crime, punish evil and promote good, and contribute to the security of Daluo City, but also increase resources for one's own practice. It is simply a good thing that kills two birds with one stone!"

So Xie Zihao made an excuse for himself at that time to be righteous and Lingran. After initially self-study and tinkering with some extraordinary powers, he almost spent all his previous savings. Xie Zihao, who was short of money, chose to take the risk and walk on the streets of Los Angeles late at night.

The first operation to punish rape and eliminate evil was carried out.

In fact, swords and guns have no eyes, and bullets don't even have eyes. If he hadn't carried a dozen or seven stand-ins with him, although these stand-ins could not move yet, they could exert the natural hypnotic power of the Sharingan, and night was Itachi's home court.

, otherwise, even if he has gained spiritual power that transcends mortals, he is still a mortal with a physical body, and he would not dare to easily act as a street hero and make some extra money for himself.

The reason why I am so eager to make money to increase my power is because I have some anxiety in my heart.

Because since he can obtain extraordinary power, then this world must be different from the previous life and contain extraordinary power.

"Now that I have gained strength, it is equivalent to taking the initiative to step into this circle. If I don't become stronger as soon as possible, I am afraid that sooner or later I will encounter a crisis that I cannot resist."

At the same time, Xie Zihao is so eager to take risks to make money because he is still quite afraid of the "God's Ball" in his mind. According to the experience of King Hong Tian recorded in his ancestor's notes, it proves that this thing is definitely

There is some big unknown secret.

But the God's Ball has now entered his head and has never come out. It seems to have settled there. Xie Zihao is unable to open his head to take it out, so he can only suppress his worries for the time being.

"First rely on the power of this thing, convert more incense power to the paper puppet substitute, try to make yourself as strong as possible, and then find a way to get it out when you have the ability in the future!"

Prepare for a rainy day, hide your capabilities and bide your time, accumulate food and slowly become king. Suddenly, many mottos from the sages of China appeared in Xie Zihao's heart, making him more and more determined to keep a low profile.

There will be more in a while

(End of chapter)