Mortal Bones

"So what if I mention it? Can Zhou Tong really cover the sky with one hand in Qingxuan Sect?"

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. "

After saying this, his figure flashed away at the entrance of the cave.

"Why bother?"

A helpless sigh came from the bronze mirror.

…

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 working hard for a whole hour, he still failed to guide the spiritual energy of heaven and earth into his body and refine it into true energy according to the description of "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 made him truly understand the difficulty of practicing the White Bone Qualification.

Thinking of this, he had made up his mind and took out the bronze mirror again, and then 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 at the Baicao Hall at the foot of the mountain. These are the herbal medicines at the Baicao Hall. After you select them in the mirror, a spiritual bird will deliver them to your courtyard."

In the mirror spirit's voice, 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. 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 cultivation of medicine gardens in the jade slip of Chuan Gong, the leaves, stems and fruits of Nine-leaf Perilla can be used as medicine, and 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 Qingxuan Sect merit coins can be redeemed per 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.

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 happens, 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 120 merit coins that need to be turned in every year, I can still have 130 left. I’ll be able to buy better medicinal seeds next year, and maybe there will be some left over 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 already 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. 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.

A big reason why he chose Nine-leaf Perilla as a seed is because it matures quickly, allowing him to quickly exchange merit in 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 received 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.

…

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 what he prepared in advance to make medicine.

"The prescription 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 prescription."

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.

He then picked up a portion of the medicinal materials on the oil paper and poured them all into the steaming hot tub. He then began to count silently with his fingers: "8, 7, 6..."

When he counted down to 1, Xu Taiping quickly poured the second portion of the medicinal materials on the table into the tub.

As the second portion of the medicinal materials was poured in, the hot water in the tub suddenly began to bubble, followed by bursts of orchid-like and musk-like fragrance.

"It seems that I put it in the right place."

Xu Taiping was delighted and poured in another bag of medicinal materials.

...

After an incense stick.

When all the medicinal materials were poured into the tub according to the instructions on the prescription, Xu Taiping only saw that the originally clear hot water in the tub had turned into a thick white slurry.

"The medicinal soup is as white as jade and as thick as slurry, just as the prescription said."

Xu Taiping breathed a sigh of relief.

At least from the outside, the bone-washing and marrow-removing soup he prepared was successful.

Immediately, Xu Taiping quickly took off his clothes, revealing his lean body, and turned over naked to soak in the bone-cleansing and marrow-removing soup.

"Tsk tsk tsk tsk..."

Perhaps because of the potency of the medicine, even after an incense stick of time, the medicine in the bathtub was still very hot, and Xu Taiping couldn't help but grimace.

If it weren't for the prescription that said that if you leave in the middle of the medicine, the effect will be greatly reduced, he would probably have jumped out of the bathtub by now.