Pawn Crossing the River

Although Qi Xuansu was frightened, he returned to the bed first, put on his boots, then took his two knives and inspected them carefully. Since he entered Xiang's house, the "Dragon Gun" and "Qingyuan" have never left his side, only the two swords have passed through the hands of outsiders.

After Qi Xuansu confirmed that there was no problem with the two swords, he took out an antidote pill and took it. This kind of antidote elixir doesn't have a very profound reputation. Even Qi Xuansu doesn't know what its official name should be. It's usually called antidote. Most medicines. If there is, it will be detoxified, if not, it will be prevented.

The key point is that it is very cheap. Each medicine only costs one peace coin, and Qiniang sells it to Qi Xuansu. According to Qiniang, in the past, this kind of medicine was indeed very expensive, and it was hard to get hundreds of dollars. However, after Huashengtang established mass production, the cost plummeted, and eventually it became a piece of peace money.

The reason is also very simple. It takes the same time to cultivate one medicinal plant alone as to cultivate hundreds of acres of medicinal materials. For a huge pill furnace that can refine a thousand pills per furnace, it takes the same time and cost to open the furnace to refine one pill as it does to refine a thousand pills. There are also various auxiliary materials, and the demand is huge. As a buyer, Huashengtang has a strong say and can naturally lower the price. Therefore, after Huashengtang established mass production, the cost was diluted and the price also dropped.

This is not just the case with this elixir, but with other elixirs as well. Huashengtang expands production, thereby reducing costs, and seizes the market at low prices. Because there is a new market, it continues to expand production, thus forming a virtuous cycle.

Under such circumstances, Huashengtang naturally "conquered cities and conquered territory" all the way, and was invincible. A number of small workshops were no match for them, and they were defeated one after another. They either became vassals of Huashengtang or perished.

Nowadays, so-called miraculous doctors are rare. Everyone knows that if you are seriously injured or have other problems, you don't need to search around the world for miraculous doctors. You can go directly to the Taoist Huasheng Hall. As long as you have money, they can probably save you. To save a life, if Huashengtang can't save it, then it's hard to save the immortal, so you can prepare for the funeral with peace of mind.

At the imperial court, there was an Imperial Medical Office, but it was not open to everyone, but only served the powerful and officials. There are many people with Huashengtang who covet the benefits of the Imperial Medical Office and jump to the Imperial Medical Office. In addition, the Imperial Medical Office has strong support from the royal family and sufficient financial resources. They can purchase various precious elixirs or other "auxiliary medicines" from Huashengtang. ” and other precious things, the level is also quite high. In the past hundred years, there has never been a case where half of ten children died in infancy.

However, the manpower is superior but poor. Many elixirs can indeed have an effect that is close to bringing the dead back to life. As long as there is still breath, they can be saved. It's just that most of these elixirs are very powerful. For people with low cultivation level, they are no different from poison. If you swallow them, you will die. You must have enough cultivation level to withstand the power of the medicine. Therefore, even if there are Huashengtang and Imperial Medical Office, ordinary people can't. There is no escape from birth, old age, illness and death. If you want to live forever, you still have to start from the acquired person step by step, and then go through the innate person and the heavenly person before you can become an immortal immortal.

After taking the elixir, Qi Xuansu felt a little more at ease.

In fact, there are roughly two types of dirty tricks in the world.

One is charming and mental. After being attacked, you will either fall asleep, become limp, or have frequent hallucinations. This method is not very effective for warriors and alchemists. Warriors are physically strong and want to charm warriors. The required amount of medicine must be measured in pounds. If it is mixed with wine, it will take at least dozens of pounds of wine, which is too unrealistic. The alchemist, on the other hand, has his soul and body separated, and regards his skin as clothing. Even if his body is limp and powerless, his soul can still leave his body.

One is to directly poison people. Whether they are banished immortals, Qi refiners or Sanren, they can be temporarily suppressed through Zhenqi.

Of course, there are methods that neither heaven nor man can resist, but the price is so high that people cannot afford it. It is more cost-effective to hire an assassin at an "inn".

Qi Xuansu thought that since he had the physique of a martial artist in the Yuxu stage and he had taken the antidote, there should be no problem. After all, it is a small place and the means are quite limited. If Qi Xuansu had misjudged him and there really was some master hiding there, there would be no need to resort to such despicable means.

Qi Xuansu arranged his clothes, put his swords back on his waist, and checked his weapons again.

The short sword "Qingyuan", "Shenlong Handgun", seven rounds of "Dragon Eyes Yi2", fifteen rounds of "Dragon Eyes Yi3", two "Fengyan Yi3", and twenty rounds of ordinary armor-piercing projectiles.

These are all powerful weapons for killing people, but they are much inferior to dealing with ghosts and the like.

In this regard, the alchemist who draws talismans to control ghosts is an expert.

Although Wufu's blood energy can restrain the ghosts and ghosts, he can only defend passively, just like a lamp can only wait for moths to pounce on it, but cannot actively look for moths on its own.

As for Sanren, they dabble in a little bit of everything and are not proficient in anything.

Qi Xuansu took a deep breath and wanted to leave overnight, but was afraid of disturbing the situation. He just wanted to survive the night and leave early tomorrow morning without revealing any flaws.

As a result, Qi Xuansu naturally couldn't sleep. He blew out the lights and sat down on the bed with his hands on his weapons.

When it was midnight, Qi Xuansu opened his eyes suddenly and heard only a very slight sound coming from the window.

The sound was getting closer and closer, rustling, not like human footsteps.

Not long after, a shadow appeared outside the window. Fortunately, the moonlight was bright tonight, the outside was bright but the inside was dark. It could be vaguely seen that it was a human figure, and the figure was slim and slim, resembling a woman.

Qi Xuansu had already used his yin and yang eyes and discovered that the figures outside were not ghosts. They not only had yang energy, but also had heavy energy. This made him relax a little, but he still remained vigilant.

This is strange. Since there are no ghosts, why would someone write talismans to ward off ghosts on the walls of the house?

At this moment, the figure outside raised his hand and gently knocked on the window.

Qi Xuansu was silent for a moment, brewing his feelings for a while, then pretended to be still dazed after being woken up by someone, and said in a confused voice: "Who is it?"

"Master Jun is asleep?" A delicate voice came from the window.

Qi Xuansu deliberately made a rustling sound similar to getting up and putting on his clothes, pretending to gradually wake up, and his voice became clearer: "Is something wrong?"

The woman outside the window said: "The night is very cold. I am worried that the military master will catch a cold, so I asked me to bring another brocade quilt over to keep him warm."

Although she has not been seen, the woman's voice is extremely charming, as if it has a hook.

In the middle of the night, the brocade quilt is warm, and this is a woman with a charming voice. Naturally, it is easy for a man who is just in his prime of life to have wild thoughts.

However, Qi Xuansu became tense. As the saying goes, being courteous for nothing, committing adultery or stealing, is probably not a good thing.

Qi Xuansu was silent for another moment, pretending to be a bit uncontrollable: "I'm used to living in tents, the door is open, you just come in."

"Okay..." The figure outside the door responded softly, and the word "good" with a deliberately long pronunciation was suddenly turned into three tones, and then made a rustling sound and opened the door to come in.

There was no lamp in the room, so Qi Xuansu could only be vaguely seen sitting on the bed.

"Why don't you hold the lamp?" The woman seemed to be holding something and put it aside after entering the door.

Qi Xuansu said softly: "What are you doing holding a lamp? Everyone is just trying to make ends meet."

"Master Jun...you..." the woman covered her mouth and smiled sweetly, "You are so old-fashioned. This kind of thing is more interesting than lighting a lamp."

As she said this, the woman was about to light the lamp.

Qi Xuansu didn't stop him and let her light the lamp.

Millennium Darkroom. Suddenly there was a light. Darkness will soon disappear. The light is everywhere.

The light illuminated the entire room.

The woman saw a well-dressed man sitting on the bed, holding the weapon at his waist with both hands, his eyebrows sharp and murderous.