I practice cultivation cautiously in a strange world

“Good wine!”

Chen Lin sighed in praise.

Zhao Zhengyuan smiled proudly, "That's natural. This is my family's ability to eat. My ability to live in this city depends entirely on this craft."

"Well, Brother Zhao's brewing skills are really impressive."

Chen Lin nodded, then looked at the other person and said, "By the way, didn't I say that Brother Zhao planned to refine the elixir some time ago? How is the refining going?"

Zhao Zhengyuan's face fell.

The feeling of pride disappeared instantly.

"Oh, don't mention it."

Zhao Zhengyuan sighed and shook his head repeatedly.

But he immediately raised his chin high, squinted his eyes and sneered: "It's hard to defeat me with just a small alchemy skill, but I, Zhao Zhengyuan, come from a family of alchemists!"

The corner of Chen Lin's mouth twitched involuntarily, and he also squinted and sneered in reply: "Yes, yes, with Brother Zhao's perseverance and talent, he will succeed sooner or later."

Zhao Zhengyuan smiled bitterly, returned to normal and said: "I'll lend you some good advice. It's a pity that my inheritance is incomplete, otherwise there might be a slight possibility."

Chen Lin grinned and said nothing more.

Communicating with people here is a real ordeal.

Because they don't seem to know about such anomalies.

The two began to drink in silence.

"By the way, Brother Zhao, everyone says that refining alchemy is difficult. Is it really that difficult?"

Seeing that more than half the bottle of wine had been consumed and the meat, porridge and food were almost gone, Chen Lin finally began to ask for the information he wanted to know.

Although the other person's temperament will change at any time, if you can't leave, you can only blend in. And when there is no 'illness', everyone is still normal.

The resources here are very scarce, and elixirs for improving cultivation are impossible to buy given his status.

Otherwise, it would be impossible for him to use spiritual rice porridge to break through the bottleneck.

And he didn't want to stay in this strange place for a moment, he only wanted to break through the middle stage of Qi training and escape from here.

Therefore, he planned to make the elixir himself.

He has the ability to hit the target ten times. As long as he has the tools, materials and elixir recipe, he can definitely refine it.

Zhao Zhengyuan was also a little tipsy and breathed out a breath of alcohol: "What do you think, if it were not difficult, would even the lowest Qi-tonifying pill be so expensive?"

"But yes, I heard that even among those foundation-building families, each family only has one alchemist. If Brother Zhao can succeed, you can go to the inner city to enjoy the blessings immediately. Don't forget about my little brother then. !”

Chen Lin filled up the wine for the other party and said casually: "Brother Zhao, since you have started to try to make elixirs, you must have mastered the elixir formula. What kind of elixir is it? Can you tell me the elixir formula?"

Zhao Zhengyuan paused, sneered normally, and glanced at Chen Lin, "What, you want to make alchemy too?"

Before Chen Lin could speak, he continued: "Refining alchemy is not that easy. I advise you to study the art of making talismans."

Chen Lin didn't take it seriously after his thoughts were seen through.

There are so many people who want to learn alchemy, and it is completely normal for them to want to learn.

But now that it was clear, he simply went straight to the point.

"Yes, I do want to learn alchemy. My cultivation has been stuck on the second level of Qi training for more than 20 years. Without the help of elixirs, I'm afraid I won't be able to break through. But you also know that the elixirs in the city are controlled by the big families. Control, it is impossible for low-level casual cultivators like us to buy it, so I came up with the idea of ​​refining my own elixir. No matter what, I will give it a try so that I will not leave any regrets."

Chen Lin's words made Zhao Zhengyuan sigh.

He felt the same way.

Casual cultivation, especially low-level casual cultivation, is too difficult.

After hesitating for a moment, he shook his head: "I do have a prescription. I can sell it to you if you want it. However, I must declare in advance that this recipe is defective. Don't say I lied to you."

"What flaw?"

Chen Lin immediately asked.

Zhao Zhengyuan fumbled in his arms for a while, and then he took out a yellowed paper roll. He pressed it under his hand and said: "The elixir prescriptions are all inherited by ancient cultivators, but with the changes in the world of cultivating immortals, some ancient spiritual The medicines have been cut off, and the current elixir prescriptions are all modified by the alchemists themselves after many attempts to find alternative elixirs, so the elixir prescriptions are so rare."

As he spoke, he unfolded the paper, revealing the densely packed small characters on it.

After touching the handwriting for a while, he sighed and said: "Although the prescription I got has been revised, it may have been a long time ago. One of the elixirs is now a scarce thing, and the elixir itself is far less valuable." Beyond the value of the elixir,

I myself substituted a cheap elixir based on its properties. Whether I can refine the elixir is still unknown. "

"Replace it yourself?"

Chen Lin tapped the table with his fingers, looking suspicious.

"hehe."

Zhao Zhengyuan's temperament changed, he squinted and sneered: "Fellow Daoist Chen, even though I, Zhao, have never refined an elixir, I come from a family of alchemists, and I have a deep understanding of pharmacological effects. How can I improve an elixir?" It’s not easy!”

"Really, let me see what you replaced?"

Chen Lin ignored the other party's sick bragging and reached out to grab Dan Fang.

But he was blocked back by the other party.

Zhao Zhengyuan rolled up the elixir recipe again and said, "Three hundred spiritual stones if you want!"

"Expensive."

Chen Lin retracted his hand and took a sip of porridge.

"This is an elixir, and it is an elixir for increasing one's cultivation. Three hundred spirit stones are still expensive? If you go through the normal way, you can't buy it no matter how many spirit stones you take!"

Zhao Zhengyuan's eyes widened and he said angrily.

Chen Lin shook his head, "That's a normal elixir you mentioned. It's basically a useless recipe like yours. Who can buy it? Well, I'm just using it for research anyway. I'll give you twenty spiritual stones, and treat them as... I’m interested.”

"Twenty spiritual stones? Are you kidding? What kind of elixir can you buy at this price? Do you think it is your powerful talisman?"

Zhao Zhengyuan shouted loudly.

Chen Lin stopped talking and just drank porridge.

If the other party didn't want to sell, he would have walked away long ago. Since he didn't, it means that the other party was very eager to sell.

And he was not sure whether his natural ability would be effective on such a flawed recipe, and he was unwilling to invest too much.

On top of that, he was also poor.

Sure enough, Zhao Zhengyuan groaned for a while and then relaxed.

"How about more, fifty dollars, and you have to swear not to tell anyone."

The price was acceptable to Chen Lin. He nodded and said, "Yes, but I have to ask Brother Zhao to explain to me the common sense and precautions for alchemy."

After a stick of incense.

Zhao Zhengyuan looked like he had been taken advantage of and left depressed.

Chen Lin took the prescription and watched it carefully.

After being immersed in it for an unknown amount of time, he heard the low sound of the copper bell placed in the corner of the room. His expression changed, and he immediately stood up and came to the window, opened the window a crack, and looked out with a sinking face.

It was already midnight.

Except for the sound of snowflakes flying in the sky mixed with the cold wind, the city was silent.

Sudden.

A red light appeared from a courtyard not far away.

Soaring straight to the sky!

Followed by the second, third, and tenth items.

In the blink of an eye, countless small lights appeared above the entire city.

Densely packed but orderly, they rushed into the dark sky with no end in sight.

Such a spectacular sight, even the blizzard was driven away, but no monk in the city came out to check it out.

It was still quiet.

It lasted for nearly a quarter of an hour before these red lines slowly faded and disappeared.

The wind picked up again and snowflakes drifted.

Chen Lin stood there for a while, then closed the window again and walked back to the table.

This scene has always existed since he traveled through time.

Every day at midnight, there will be such a scene.

The rest of the time it was business as usual.

After a month of investigation, he found that each of these red thin lines was actually connected to a person. He didn't know what they were doing specifically.

Moreover, the people connected by the thin line seemed to have no feeling at all. He had asked many people indirectly, but they all looked baffled.

Even the original owner has no memory of this situation.

Therefore, he suspected that the people here, including the original owner, could not see this strange scene at all, just like they could not detect that they would always squint and sneer.

His lack of knowledge made it impossible for him to speculate on the root cause, and with his current level of cultivation, it was impossible for him to have the ability to detect it.

What he can do is to quickly improve his cultivation to the middle stage of Qi training, so that he can have some ability to survive in the wild, and then escape.