The evil cultivation of immortality, starting from an apprentice in a medicine shop

"Cultivation of immortals and Taoism will turn into demons and evil spirits?"

"Are practitioners the biggest and most difficult demons and evil spirits in the world?"

"The Dunfa Dan Dao in the golden silk is even more dangerous."

Qiu Zhen's eyes with a faint golden light fell into the white mist, and a stream of shocking information poured into his mind.

If the guess is correct, the steaming white mist on the basin was left by the previous owner of the "Golden Silk" to warn newcomers.

Moreover, there is more than one "previous owner".

Qiu Zhen was a young man at the moment, but he also felt several different auras in the white mist. They each "left messages" about the dangers of practicing this technique.

In his words, another surprising news was also revealed.

Immortal cultivators are not outsiders, but are disliked by others and live in the dark. If they are not careful, they will turn into evil creatures, walking corpses, and unexplained.

This horrifying news had a huge impact on him, and it suddenly refreshed his understanding.

"No wonder when I went to the Taoist temple to seek immortality and ask questions, all the Taoist priests and monks kept secret for fear of getting into trouble."

Qiu Zhen suddenly realized this and couldn't help but sigh, feeling a little depressed.

The fact that the gold and silk fell into his hands meant that the seniors had either died or turned into demons and evil spirits, making everyone scream and beat them up.

After receiving the "mysterious gold and silk", he thought he had a great opportunity to change his destiny.

Who knew that behind the opportunity there was such great danger and horror.

"This method"

At first, the joy and excitement that the [Hundred Days Foundation Building] method had been successfully completed, and that it was about to take a crucial step, suddenly disappeared.

Tossing and turning all night.

The next day, Qiu Zhen had morning classes as usual. He stood on the hill behind the small courtyard and practiced [Yao Wang Wu Qin Xi] facing the rising sun.

The immortal method in Jinbo was temporarily put down and did not act rashly.

After practicing, Qiu Zhen ate four multigrain pancakes made by himself and rushed straight to the drugstore in the town.

Yaowang Valley is a major medical sect with a very famous name. Qingmu Pharmacy is backed by a big tree and has developed rapidly and is not small in scale.

Just for drug shop apprentices, there is a front yard and a back yard, and there are two classes: A and B.

Qiu Zhen belongs to Class B and belongs to the backyard. He is responsible for chores in the backyard, planting medicine in the medicine field, preparing medicine, assisting the pharmacist in making medicine, refining elixirs, etc.

In fact, they usually just do odd jobs and concoct medicines.

The apprentices around the pharmacist are either real disciples or close relatives, so they have no chance to take their turn.

Qiu Zhen went straight to the backyard of the medicine shop and brought the medicinal materials prepared yesterday to the warehouse.

In fact, the delivery was originally supposed to be delivered to the warehouse yesterday, but Kang Guanshi was busy with everything at night and had no time to check and accept it, so it always had to be postponed until the next morning.

As soon as we entered the backyard, the atmosphere was a little strange and solemn.

"You are a pig. You need to change more water to bleach aconite. How many times have you changed it? You are cheating and lazy. I will punish you by weeding three acres of medicinal fields."

"Yes, yes, it's the one in charge of teaching."

"You're a very capable boy. I asked you to peel the fine cinnamon. What kind of appearance did you make? Can you sell this ugly thing? Yesterday's wages were deducted in half!"

"Ah~ Manager, please don't deduct wages from me. I have an eighty-year-old mother and a young brother."

"Your mother is eighty years old. How can your mother still give birth to you when she is seventy or eighty years old? If you keep talking nonsense, you will be compensated according to the price of this batch of high-quality cinnamon."

Outside the courtyard of the medicine warehouse, a group of apprentices lined up in a long line with their heads hanging down, looking like prisoners going to the execution ground.

As soon as Qiu Zhen entered the yard, all the apprentices were very happy and jumped in line for Qiu Zhen one by one.

"Brother Zhen, you come first."

"Brother please~"

"Brother Zhen, here!"

It's not that Qiu Zhen's status is so high that everyone respects him and allows him, but that everyone doesn't want to go up and "listen to the lesson and accept the punishment", so they can delay it for a while.

Qiu Zhen was different. He was so good at Pao Zhen that even Manager Kang couldn't find anything wrong with him. He was reprimanded for being too little, let alone being punished as a coolie and having his wages withheld.

Qiu Zhen shook his head, accepted everyone's "humility" and entered the medicinal material warehouse.

"Real brother."

The big-headed brothers Zhao Dou and thin monkey Shen Liang looked aggrieved when they saw Qiu Zhen.

Qiu Zhen was speechless. They were the two of them who had been scolded bloody in the room just now.

"Guanshi Kang!"

Inside the room, Kang Zhuangyuan, who was a bit fat, was sitting on the bench. This man had an abnormal face, irregular facial features, a narrow space between his eyebrows and between his eyes, extremely prominent cheekbones, and a face that was impatient, irritable, and acted in extreme ways.

He is also notorious among the apprentices.

At this moment, Manager Kang's face was full of displeasure and irritability, as if everyone owed him money. Seeing Qiu Zhen placing the medicinal materials in front of him, he turned over them with a straight face and checked the quality.

Yesterday, Qiu Zhen was thinking that "good things" were about to happen, so he worked very hard, and the herbs in the five bamboo baskets were roasted to perfection.

Manager Na Kang searched for a long time and couldn't find anything wrong.

In the past, he would have waved his hand and it would have passed. But today, the depression in his chest was too strong and he had nowhere to vent it. He felt very uncomfortable. There was an unknown fire in his heart that could not be extinguished. Immediately, his face turned gloomy. , pointed at a bunch of Angelica dahuricae in the basket, and shouted:

"Qiu Zhen, you have been less and less serious about your work recently. Look, these Angelica dahuricae are all burnt and black. How can you do such a good job!"

Qiu Zhen was stunned and looked over.

The Angelica dahurica that Kang Guanshi pointed to was clearly not burnt black at all, but glowed with a yellow-red color, which was the purest color.

"Guanshi Kang, take a look at the quality."

"I don't have eyes? I'm just burnt!"

Manager Kang had a stern look on his face and looked around at the apprentices:

"Look, is it burnt?"

All the apprentices were silent, and many nodded in approval, looking like they were just taking care of things and trying to please them.

"Good guy! Turn red into black"

Qiu Zhen was speechless and realized that the manager was so angry that he was no longer unreasonable.

In fact, it is normal for some errors and losses in the preparation of medicinal materials, and the drug store is not so mean. Otherwise, the apprentices would take out loans to work, not only making no money, but also being in debt.

He usually does his job well, but occasionally he makes a mistake and spoils the medicinal materials, which is not harmful at all.

Immediately, Qiu Zhen did not argue with Guanshi Kang and handed over:

"Manager Kang, next time I work I will be more careful and ensure the quality."

"Hmph~"

Manager Kang had just acted on a whim. When he saw Qiu Zhen, he immediately surrendered and had no place to get angry. After snorting coldly, his expression softened:

"You work meticulously on weekdays, and I see it. Forget it, the penalty will be waived. You can go down."

Not long after, Qiu Zhen came out of the medicinal material warehouse and came to the courtyard where everyone usually activities.

As the saying goes, good things don’t go out, but bad things spread thousands of miles.

The scene of "turning red into black" in the medicinal material warehouse suddenly spread among the apprentices.

Zhao Dou and Shen Liang, who were friends with Qiu Zhen, were even more indignant.

"Kang Bangchui is going too far. It's obviously burnt red, but he can say it's burnt black. It's too dark."

"Brother Zhen is so good at cooking. He can find faults in eggs and make things out of nothing. We let him ravage us and bully us to death. He is a bastard and deducted half of my wages!"

An apprentice in the courtyard heard this, shook his head and sighed:

"Actually, things happen for a reason."

Qiu Zhen raised his eyebrows and asked, "Manager Kang lost money again? Did he lose big this time?"

"It's a big loss."

While he was talking, an apprentice in the yard glanced in the direction of the medicinal materials warehouse, and then continued:

"I heard that Manager Kang played dice last night and lost more than half a year's salary and all his personal money, so he became furious and extremely angry."

"No wonder."

Qiu Zhen suddenly realized that although Manager Kang had a violent temper, he was still restrained on weekdays. Today, he was so angry that he completely went to the head, and there was no reason to explain.

Damn it!

Qiu Zhen, who was good at cultivating qi, couldn't help but feel a little aggrieved and depressed. He had offended someone.

"Crack!"

Just when Qiu Zhen was in a daze and sighing, the skinny monkey Shen Liang, who was drinking porridge, suddenly stood up, stepped on a group of ants on the ground, and crushed them all to death to relieve the depression in his heart.

"I'll let you deduct my salary, I'll let you deduct it!"

There was also an angry apprentice who kicked the tree to vent his unhappiness.

This scene seemed sparse and ordinary in the courtyard, nothing surprising.

However, Qiu Zhen, who had never spoken a word, was stunned when he saw the tragic death of ants.

Manager Kang lost money and angered everyone, and everyone became angry with ants and big trees.

To a certain extent, what is the difference between these apprentices and these ants and big trees?

Today, Kang Guanshi can "turn red into black", but in the future

"Let's go, let's go to work."

Everyone chatted for a while, but didn't stay long. They were afraid of getting into trouble with the manager, so they went to work one after another.

Slender monkey Shen Liang and big-headed Zhao Dou saw that everyone was preparing to leave, but Qiu Zhen was the only one who stayed in place, and quickly stepped forward to show concern:

"Brother Zhen, what's wrong?"

Qiu Zhenru woke up from a dream and saw the familiar faces of Shouhou and Big Tou. After a moment of trance, the depressed look on his face disappeared without a trace, and he smiled brightly:

"Skinny Monkey, Big Tou, help me take two days off."

After saying that, Qiu Zhen walked out of the pharmacy without looking back.

There is an air of freedom and ease in the steps.

Last night, he tossed and turned, thinking about whether to continue to practice Jinbo's immortal method and whether to take the last step. His whole person fell into entanglement and distress. But now, he has seen "pointing red to black" and "life is like this". Ants".

At this moment, he had a clear idea.

If you hear the truth in the morning, you will die in the evening!