Fairy cage

Time passed, and nearly a month passed in the blink of an eye.

Yu Lie stayed in the elixir shop and closed himself in his own room, which was also the largest alchemy room.

He looked at the alchemy furnace in front of him, which was made up of bones. Although the furnace already revealed a mature medicinal fragrance, indicating that the elixir had been successfully refined, there was still no joy on Yu Lie's face. He frowned slightly.

Once the heat is up.

I saw Yu Lie gently knocking on the bone elixir furnace, and the flower bones bloomed together immediately, and thick juice flowed from it. The color was bright red and the smell was pungent, and there were eyeball-like elixirs embedded in it, densely packed. Very penetrating.

Yu Lie reached out and picked up the shriveled pills hanging on the inner wall of the alchemy furnace one by one, put them on the porcelain plate nearby, and shook a copper bell next to it.

The sound of jingling bells sounded, and footsteps immediately sounded outside the alchemy room.

Song Danqing has been busy in the alchemy furnace for a long time, and now he is familiar with the work. In addition to welcoming people, he also works as a handyman in the store.

After knocking on the door, he walked in slowly and saw Yu Lie holding a purple pill, putting it in his mouth to taste it, and frowning deeply.

Song Danqing looked at the pills placed on the porcelain plate.

After taking bad tonic for a while, he already had a preliminary understanding of medicinal materials and elixirs. He recognized that this was a pill called "Grape Beads", which can nourish the true energy and nourish the body. It is an eighth-grade elixir. Zhongpo is a superior type.

The raw material is the eyeballs of the grape monkey, mixed with other medicinal materials, and is secretly refined using the blood and flesh elixir method. After being refined, it will naturally become shriveled, like grapes. Just one pill can be sold for five dollars. The price of a spiritual stone.

According to what Song Danqing knew, Yu Lie often came to the elixir shop recently, and he was studying this elixir.

According to Song Danqing's current eyesight, he found that Yu Lie had obviously refined the pills, and the quality was good. They could serve as the main item for the elixir shop this month and make a lot of money.

But Song Danqing was unsure about Yu Lie's expression. As a last resort, he asked aloud:

"Master, what's the quality of the pills, and what's the price tag?"

Yu Lie took the elixir, and the juice faintly overflowed from his mouth. After swallowing a few times, he said casually: "This furnace is of high quality. The price is, so it is better to take six spiritual stones per pill."

Song Danqing immediately replied: "Okay."

There was joy in his voice.

Song Danqing now regards the store as half of his home, and Yu Lie even acquiesces to him resting in the store, which can be used to look after the store, and it can also save him hotel expenses.

As for the spiritual energy, the store is just so-so, it's okay, and it's enough for Song Danqing's daily practice.

After learning that two alchemy disciples in the store had been kicked out, Song Danqing was still worried that the store's business would decline. He gave Yu a lot of ideas in private, and even offered to prepare some charms. Yu Lie allowed it to be sold in the shop.

But in Song Danqing's view, the shop's business has never been on track.

Now that he saw Yu Lie successfully refining the eighth-grade elixir, this person had a great understanding of Yu Lie's alchemy skills, and thought to himself: "Brother Yu's alchemy skills, although only one person's, are enough to match If you are better than three ordinary people, the business of the shop can be on the right track and it will not be sluggish!"

Thinking in his mind, Song Danqing carefully collected the pills on the porcelain plate into a square jade bottle.

He looked at Yu Lie, who still looked calm and cheerful, and whispered: "Master, is there anything else you need to give me?"

Yu Lie heard this and said, "You don't need to call me boss in private. Just call me Yu Lie or Brother Lie."

Song Danqing smiled and nodded, but still bowed.

Yu Lie did not say what he was worried about, but just prevaricated: "By the way, tell me about the things you did, how did you handle them, but you got involved with the snakes and rats in the city?"

When Song Danqing heard this, his voice became even lower: "Go back to my boss's house. It's almost time. Since I showed my shop last time, some people have shown signs of being interested. I guess those people are also secretly inquiring about us now."

Song Danqing paused and then said: "But in this way, our store has no cover. If someone informs the Dao Palace, will it affect the owner's evaluation five years later?"

Hearing this, Yu Lie had a look of disdain on his face:

"It doesn't matter. Since you want to do business with those snakes and rats, how can you not take some risks? Things will happen in five years, five years from now, just make money first. Never give up the ghost market as a channel!"

After explaining, Yu Lie opened his eyes, looked at Song Danqing, and said with a smile: "Maybe Brother Song will have worshiped in the Taoist Palace by then, and you and I will go around together, it won't be a big deal."

Song Danqing cupped his hands and responded: "My boss is joking."

After a few more words, Yu Lie sent Song Danqing out.

The wooden door in the room was closed, and the noise completely disappeared.

Yu Lie came back to his senses. He looked at the Bone Pill Furnace that still had the fragrance of the pills left, but he sighed softly:

"Even if it is an eighth-grade high-quality cultivation elixir, the improvement effect is not very obvious."

After tasting it just now, one pill of grape beads can make his one day of practice worth the ordinary three days of hard work.

This improvement speed is not small.

But Yu Lie silently calculated that he was still about nineteen years away from thirty years of Taoism. Counting twenty years, if he wants to reach the realm of a high-level Taoist disciple within five years, he will have to improve his Taoism for four years in one year.

In other words, Yu Lie's cultivation speed must be at least four times faster than normal.

And this has to take away all the chores outside of cultivation, including refining the elixir itself. In this way, with his dedicated hard work, he can break through to the realm of a high-level Taoist disciple within five years, and can try to break through and become a Taoist official.

After thinking about it, Yu Lie thought to himself: "No, quadrupling the cultivation speed will not work. Every time you transform, it will take at least a year before you can undergo the next transformation.

In other words, if I want to transform into a Taoist priest within five years, I have to practice Taoism for twenty years in the next four years! "

As a result, his cultivation speed requirement increased from at least four times to at least five times!

Compared with the difference between three and four times, the degree of difficulty has doubled.

The Grape Pearl elixir that Yu Lie is currently refining is already the most convenient elixir among the prescriptions that he knows so far, which is convenient for his refining and the most obvious elixir for improving the speed of cultivation.

But the current situation is that the effect of this medicine is far from meeting his requirements.

Even after he breaks through and becomes a middle-level Taoist disciple, Yu Lie will take this medicine again. Not to mention the effect, his own drug resistance is probably extremely high, and he will have to use another medicine.

Yu Lie frowned and couldn't help but think: "It would be great if we could get another treasure like Chizhen Secret Sand!"

It's a pity that treasures like Chizhen Secret Sand can only be encountered but not sought. Secondly, pills that can directly increase cultivation are also rare.

Yu Lie asked Song Danqing to inquire about them when contacting the black market and conducting business.

It turned out that treasures such as Chizhen Secret Sand would not be circulated in the ghost market at all. Even if you are brave enough to sell in the ghost market, you will be targeted by the forces in the ghost market as soon as you sell it. They will spend a lot of money to buy it and sell it secretly to the outside world, not even at auction.

If someone like Yu Lie, who has no access, wants to obtain it, he basically has to go to the outer city area in person, collect the medicine by himself, and try his luck.

As soon as the idea of ​​"hitting your luck" arose in Yu Lie's mind, he was immediately rejected by Yu Lie:

"Now that I am a disciple of the Dao Palace and have a family, how can I go out and take risks at will?"

Although he strongly wanted to break through and become a Taoist priest within five years, a gentleman would not stand under a dangerous wall. He would go as little as possible to the outer city areas.

Yu Lie thought to himself: "In this case, there is only one last way left."

Ordinary eighth-grade elixirs with no consequences were not enough, so the remaining targets immediately focused on eighth-grade elixirs with radical effects and some consequences, or seventh-grade elixirs that only Taoist officials were qualified to take!

What he was thinking about was whether he could revise the radical prescription so that the medicine and poison were incompatible with each other so that the elixir would have no negative effects on him at least, or whether he could personally refine a seventh-grade elixir that was beyond his current level. .

Especially the latter.

The seventh-grade elixir is not sold to the eighth-grade Taoist disciples, but the Taoist disciples refine it themselves and no one knows if they take it themselves.

Moreover, the cultivation levels of Immortal Dao are very clear, and it is quite difficult to overcome only a small realm within the first level. Being able to refine something beyond one's own level when one's cultivation level is insufficient is already considered quite qualified.

And if one can cross a large realm and refine a seventh-grade elixir with an eighth-grade body, even if it is only the lowest among the seventh-grade, he can be regarded as a genius and can enter the Dao Palace without taking the test. In the middle, he became an outer disciple.

If Yu Lie can refine the seventh-grade elixir, it will not only help him greatly increase his cultivation speed, but also improve his status in the Taoist palace.

Five years from now, even if he doesn't break through and become a Taoist priest, he will still be able to keep the situation under control!

As for where to find extreme prescriptions or seventh grade prescriptions, Yu Lie narrowed his eyes slightly and thought to himself:

"It seems that the lecture on Taoism held in March in the Taoist Palace is really not to be missed. I have to make good preparations."

In the Tao lectures, there will be at least one Tao Palace lecturer.

When the time comes, Dao Palace disciples like Yu Lie can use the spirit stones and Tao Kung Fu in their hands to exchange exercises, prescriptions and other items from the Dao Palace lecturers.

After Yu Lie passed the assessment, he suddenly got a Taoist skill in his hand.

As for why you don't go directly to the Sutra Pavilion, Pharmacy and other places in the Taoist Palace to exchange it, it's because in the Taoist Palace, the classes are clearly defined, and you can only enter certain places according to your level.

He simply cannot enter the place where the seventh-grade classics are, let alone exchange them.

The only way to get it in advance is to exchange it from a Taoist with lecturer status, and you have to have the other person like you.

The reason why the rules are so complicated is for no other purpose. On the surface, it is not to let the disciples get something for nothing, not to encourage the students, and they know that Taoism is not taught lightly. In fact, it is just to keep it secret.

Otherwise, since Yu Lie has a relationship with Shouwu worshiping him, he can go to the other party to learn from him while he is still alive, and gain a large number of prescriptions.

It's a pity that for most of the prescriptions in Shouwu's hands, when the other party learned them, they made an oath and contract that they could not be passed on to others, even to their direct bloodline heirs.

The reason why Shouwu was willing to work in the Qianlin Chamber of Commerce despite being a Taoist official was mainly because the Qianlin Chamber of Commerce could provide him with a lot of alchemy techniques in addition to the good salary.

"That's right." Yu Lie thought about it and suddenly thought: "More than a month has passed. I wonder if Taoist Master Shouwu is alive or dead?"

In a month's time, judging from Shouwu's original appearance, the other party either chose to become a ghost or a god, or died of serious injuries and was already gone.

In the past half month, Yu Lie had neglected many chores in order to study alchemy. Luo Sen was also busy, and the two had not met in private. It was not convenient for him to ask, and he forgot to ask.

With this thought, Yu Lie suddenly felt that he could take a break from refining alchemy, relax and take care of his subordinates.

Not long after, he put away the bone elixir furnace, walked out of the room, and found Luo Sen busy in the shop.

When he asked Rosen, he received an answer that made him relieved but also secretly disappointed.

When Shouwu worshiped him for the last time, he followed Luo Sen's advice and did not choose to dissipate his soul, but became a ghost and god.

It's just that the other party sent a message to Luo Sen. After becoming a god, the words are not free, and where he will go is not yet known. Although he has trusted the relationship and wants to stay in Daocheng, there is no guarantee that he will be able to do so.

Even if you stay in the Taoist city, you will be called a god but actually a ghost. Many of your blessings will be reduced and you will not be as good as a real Taoist. You must act in accordance with the law. Otherwise, your actual status will be worse than that of a living Taoist. .

However, the other party also told Luo Sen not to be afraid of trouble and just practice hard.

Even if he was separated from the Dao City, within a dozen years, some human relations were still there, which was enough to ensure that Luo Sen could practice safely in the city.

In the shop, Luo Sen leaned over and spoke to Yu Lie:

"Grandpa Shouwu has now resigned, and there is someone else in Qian Lin's alchemy room. Grandpa's current location is a secret matter in the Taoist palace, which is not something I can know."

Yu Lie nodded, cupped his hands and said, "The Taoist Master will definitely be able to stay in the city as he wishes. Please rest assured, sister."

He secretly thought in his heart: "It's called a god, but it's actually a ghost. After becoming a god, you can't help yourself. Is this why Taoist Shouwu doesn't want to become a god?"

However, Yu Lie pondered what Rosen relayed, and found that this lack of freedom was just an inability to dominate, and he still had his own intelligence.

Compare this kind of "unfreedom" with a life span of sixty years. If you let the rest of the column choose, they will definitely choose the latter.

After thinking about it for a while, Yu Lie felt that there must be a deeper reason. However, he didn't talk to Rosen anymore, so as not to worry the other party.

After some pleasantries, Yu Lie left the elixir shop at noon and returned to the mountain gate of the Taoist Palace to practice.

He had obtained a new medicine. Although it was not to his liking, he could only practice with this medicine until there was no alternative.

"Three times the cultivation speed is just so-so."

If this idea were to be known to others, they would secretly spit on him and scold him for being a big dog and not being satisfied.

for the rest of the time.

Yu Lie was immersed in cultivation, and his skills in refining grape beads became more and more refined.

Time flew by again.

Two months later, it was the day when these Taoist disciples could listen to Taoism and study the Dharma for the first time.