Chapter 249 254, Little Dragon Girl's Little Resentment, Alchemy Genius
"This dog looks a bit fierce."
In front of the Tomb of the Living Dead in the blessed land of the cave, Xiao Longnu looked at the gray and white "big dog" beside Ouyang Feng and asked carefully:
“Does it bite?”
"It doesn't bite." Ouyang Feng said casually, and gently kicked the wolf demon, "Didn't you hear? I said you were fierce!"
The wolf demon whined in grievance, lowered its head with a shameful look, stuck out its tongue, and raised its wolf tail, shaking it awkwardly twice.
"Eh!" Xiao Long Nu was surprised and asked, "Can it understand human language?"
Ouyang Feng smiled and said, "Well, quite smart."
"Does it have a name?"
"My name is Ling Xuzi."
"Ling Xuzi? Why would you give a dog such a name?"
"You can call it Wangcai or Laifu if you want."
"Wangcai, Laifu? These are too ugly. Forget it, let's just call him Lingxuzi."
After a pause, Xiao Longnu asked again:
"Are you here to practice with me today?"
"No. I'm taking this dog to get familiar with the environment of the cave. I caught this dog to guard the mountains. It will help patrol the mountains and forests and take care of things. It can do things like herding cattle and sheep, managing flying dragons and spirit beasts, and cultivating spirit herbs."
Xiao Long Nu asked curiously: "Are you kidding? It's just a dog."
"It's not an ordinary dog, it's a smart dog."
"How smart is it?"
So Ouyang Feng kicked the wolf demon again:
"Show Miss Long what you can do."
The wolf demon quickly shook its body and turned into a giant wolf with a head as big as a water tank. Under Xiaolongnu's surprised gaze, it leaped into the air and swooped down towards the opposite hill. With one hit of its head, it smashed a cliff several meters high into pieces.
Then it leaped back and turned back into the size of an ordinary wolfhound, with its tongue hanging out and its tail wagging, looking very obedient.
"What great strength!" Xiao Longnu exclaimed.
Ouyang Feng smiled and said, "If you need to cut through mountains or build roads in the future, you can ask it to help."
Just as she was about to say goodbye and leave, Xiao Long Nu suddenly said:
"Yesterday I went to Fangzhang Mountain to collect snow silk, and I met the Liusheng sisters and A Zi. They were there with several women I had never seen before."
Ouyang Feng knew that she had run into Zhu Yuyan and the others who were still playing in the cave, so he asked:
"You didn't fight with them?"
Xiao Long Nu shook her head, glanced at him, and said faintly:
"How dare I fight them? Not only are they beautiful, but their aura is also unfathomable. They all seem so powerful, and their martial arts skills are better than mine."
Ouyang Feng took a step forward, held her cool and soft hand, and said with a smile:
"Isn't Long Er also as beautiful as a fairy?"
Xiao Long Nu snorted, "But they are numerous and powerful. Three of them are sisters."
Ouyang Feng smiled and said, "So what? You are still Dragon Girl Flower."
After a pause, he asked her, "Have you met and talked with them?"
"No. I don't like dealing with strangers. When I saw so many people from a distance, I turned invisible and walked away."
Xiao Long Nu looked at Ouyang Feng and said quietly:
"Do you want me to get acquainted with them?"
"I have no objection to this." Ouyang Feng shook his head. "Here, you can do whatever you want. If you want to make friends, then make friends. If you don't want to make friends, then just ignore it. No one will force you."
"Yes." Xiao Long Nu nodded slightly, hesitated for a while, and asked him: "When will you... come to practice with me again?"
Ouyang Feng raised his hand and stroked her smooth and tender cheek, "Wait for me to arrange a few things, and then I'll come tonight."
Xiao Long Nu pursed her lips and smiled, and said softly: "Well, I'll wait for you."
After leaving the Tomb of the Living Dead, Ouyang Feng took the wolf demon to visit the three islands of Penglai, Yingzhou, and Fangzhang, pointed out some key areas to it, assigned it various tasks, and finally said:
"Fangzhang Mountain is a continuous mountain range with thousands of cliffs and valleys. Ninety-nine percent of them are high mountains and deep valleys. You can find a mountaintop to open up a cave. After you finish the tasks I assign to you every day, you can practice on your own."
The wolf demon responded respectfully: "I will obey the master's order."
"Anyone who enters the blessed land is mine. You cannot hurt any of them."
"Master, rest assured. I will never kill anyone, let alone hurt your people."
"Very good."
Ouyang Feng nodded with satisfaction, and then took it to Dragon Island, stepped into the Dragon Nest Volcano, found a cave close to the underground lava, put out the alchemy furnace, and said:
"I want to make a furnace of elixir. Your furnace needs to be driven by earth fire. You know what to do."
The wolf demon panted, wagged its tail, and said with a drooling wolf face:
"Little demon is already the master's mountain-guarding spirit dog, so the furnace for refining pills is naturally the master's pill furnace."
After tasting the "Life and Death Talisman", the wolf demon not only completely understood the situation, its mouth became extremely obedient, and even the movements of sticking out its tongue and wagging its tail became more and more skillful.
"Very good." Seeing that he was so tactful, Ouyang Feng was also satisfied and said, "Do your job well. If you have any merit, you will definitely benefit from my enlightenment in the future."
"Thank you, sir! I will go to the fire well now."
The wolf demon said respectfully, went to the center of the cave, found a suitable position, changed back into the appearance of a Taoist priest, pinched his fingers and chanted a spell, stepped on the magic circle for a while, suddenly pinched his fingers and pointed at the ground, saying: "Hurry!"
The ground collapsed silently, revealing a circular hole with a diameter of three feet, leading directly to the underground lava belt.
Afterwards, the wolf demon continued to make hand seals, chant spells, and paint densely packed talismans on the wall of the cave.
After a while of hard work, the fire well was finally set up.
He moved the alchemy furnace to the mouth of the fire well, changed back into wolf form, ran to Ouyang Feng, and said with his tongue out:
"Master, everything is ready. You can start refining the elixir at any time. When refining the elixir, you only need to chant this mantra to draw out the earth fire from the fire well, inject it into the fire chamber of the elixir furnace, and adjust the temperature at will..."
He also taught Ouyang Feng the method of chanting mantras to draw fire.
After Ouyang Feng learned it, he went to the alchemy furnace, made hand gestures and chanted a spell. The talismans on the wall of the fire well lit up, and the lava at the bottom of the well also surged. Soon, a pure and condensed beam of fire gushed out from the fire well and entered the fire chamber of the alchemy furnace.
Ouyang Feng performed the spell again and was able to adjust the temperature as he wished.
"good."
Ouyang Feng nodded with satisfaction and sent the wolf demon to open a cave in Fangzhang Mountain.
Although this wolf demon is an expert in alchemy, Ouyang Feng cannot absolutely trust him now. Ordinary pills can be given to the wolf demon to refine, but the matter of refining the Dragon Yuan pill cannot be allowed to be presided over by the wolf demon.
There is only one such precious treasure as the Dragon Yuan in the entire world.
If the wolf demon were allowed to preside over alchemy, and if it did something naughty and deliberately wasted some dragon essence or produced too many useless pills, then even if it was skinned, boned, and slaughtered to make soup, the loss would be irreparable.
Although this possibility is not high, Ouyang Feng wants to be absolutely sure and prevent even the smallest bad thing from happening.
After getting rid of the wolf demon, Ouyang Feng returned to Xingqing Mansion in the main world and gave the two scrolls he found in the wolf demon's cave to Huang Yaoshi.
Huang Yaoshi unfolded the scroll that recorded the alchemy techniques and several recipes. After a quick glance, his eyes lit up and he said excitedly:
"Good stuff! Where did you find this?"
"It's a true alchemy technique found from outer space." Ouyang Feng asked with a smile, "How long will it take to fully comprehend it?"
Huang Yaoshi did not answer immediately. He first quickly glanced at the scroll on alchemy, then opened another scroll which was equivalent to a small encyclopedia of alchemy materials and browsed through it. Then he closed his eyes and pondered for a while before saying, "Seven days at most."
"Okay. I'll wait for you for seven days."
"During these seven days, you must prepare as many alchemy materials as possible. After all, we don't have a ready-made recipe with Dragon Essence as the main ingredient, and I have to figure it out on my own, so the more alchemy materials you have, the better. Then I can analyze them one by one and choose the appropriate auxiliary medicine from them."
"no problem."
Ouyang Feng agreed immediately.
There were already many spiritual materials in the blessed land, and he had emptied Ling Xuzi's material warehouse, so the materials for alchemy were very abundant.
Of course, there were many alchemy materials in Lingxuzi's warehouse that Ouyang Feng did not recognize. Although he could roughly identify the medicinal properties, he could not identify some rare materials clearly, so he had to ask Lingxuzi.
"Is there anything else?" Huang Yaoshi asked, his head buried in the scroll.
"There is one thing. I found an alchemist with extraordinary attainments in the outer space. The two scrolls I gave you were also obtained from that alchemist. Before you make the elixir, I plan to let the alchemist start making a few ordinary elixirs. You can watch from the side and have a deeper understanding of alchemy..."
"What?" Huang Yaoshi raised his head, looking unhappy: "You also found other alchemists?"
Given his love of learning, he certainly wouldn't mind observing and learning from other alchemy masters while refining pills. What he minded was that Ouyang Feng actually found someone else.
Without waiting for Ouyang Feng to speak, he snorted again, "Since you have already found other alchemists, why are you looking for me again?"
Seeing that he was angry, Ouyang Feng was not anxious. Metal can overcome wood. He had already mastered Huang Yaoshi's power to perfection. At this moment, he only needed one sentence to make Huang Yaoshi obedient:
"Dragon essence is a rare treasure in the world, one of a kind. I can only feel at ease if you, the pharmacist, personally manage the alchemy with dragon essence. I find it difficult to trust other alchemists, even if they are gods who have descended to the earth."
As soon as these words came out, Huang Yaoshi's expression brightened up a little. He lowered his head again and continued to comprehend the scroll, saying:
"Is there anything else?"
Ouyang Feng spread his hands:
"Gone."
Huang Yaoshi did not even raise his head, but waved his hand impatiently and said:
"If you have nothing else, leave now. Don't disturb me while I'm trying to comprehend the art of alchemy."
Ouyang Feng smiled silently, knowing that his grudge had been resolved, and went straight back to his paradise.
He was not in a hurry to find Ling Xuzi to ask for alchemy materials, and went to the Tomb of the Living Dead as agreed.
In this huge Tomb of the Living Dead, only Xiao Longnu, Hong Lingbo and Lu Wushuang live now.
Since Xiaolongnu had made an appointment with Ouyang Feng to practice together, she had of course assigned homework to Hong Lingbo and Lu Wushuang early in the morning and sent them to work on their own. She then took a bath and meditated on the cold jade bed while waiting for Ouyang Feng to arrive.
So when Ouyang Feng passed directly through the bronze door and was teleported to Xiaolongnu's room, he saw the girl with her waist-length black hair still wet, her icy body covered in only a snow-white gauze, her tender jade balls and small rose beads were faintly visible.
Such a moving and beautiful scene made Ouyang Feng's appetite grow. He stood in front of the cold jade bed and admired her for a while, then wanted to go forward and catch her.
But when he reached the cold jade bed and just leaned over, Xiao Longnu suddenly raised her right leg, straightened her instep, and pressed the forefoot against his chest, saying softly, "Wait a minute..."
Ouyang Feng held her delicate and slender feet in one hand, playing with her pearly toes. With the other hand, he held up her curvy and perfectly proportioned snow-white calves, and asked with a smile, "What are you waiting for?"
A blush appeared on Xiao Long Nu's pretty face. She pursed her lips and said softly:
"My hair isn't dry yet..."
"It's okay, it will dry quickly."
Ouyang Feng moved his mind, and a gust of fiery wind blew out of nowhere, ruffling Xiaolongnu's black hair. In the blink of an eye, it dried the moisture in her hair.
After helping her steam dry her hair, Ouyang Feng used a little force to break down her symbolic resistance and embrace her in his arms.
As the girl's soul-stirring moans and sobs rang out, the quiet room was filled with a sweet and mellow fragrance that was like the scent of honey.
……
Seven days later.
In the volcanic dragon's nest, in the alchemy room.
Ling Xuzi made hand seals and chanted incantations, drawing earth fire from the fire well and pouring it into the fire chamber of the alchemy furnace.
When the fire was hot enough, he put all kinds of prepared medicinal materials into the medicine room in order. He also made hand seals from time to time to adjust the fire, while carefully explaining the various techniques he performed.
Huang Yaoshi and Ouyang Feng stood quietly by and watched him perform.
Ling Xuzi was refining a furnace of the most basic Yang Yuan Dan, which has the effect of strengthening the body and consolidating the foundation. The refining process was not complicated, and it only took half an hour to get a furnace of Yang Yuan Dan fresh out of the furnace.
Ling Xuzi made hand seals and used a special technique to collect the elixir into the gourd. He then nodded and bowed as he presented the gourd to the two of them:
"The Yang Yuan Pill is ready, please taste it, sirs."
Ouyang Feng took the gourd, poured out two round, fragrant pills that looked like yellow buds, and handed one to Huang Yaoshi.
Huang Yaoshi sniffed it gently, then broke the pill and tasted it. After tasting it for a while, he put it into his mouth and swallowed it. After feeling the medicinal effect, he nodded and said:
"Yes, the medicine is mild in nature. People with weak constitutions and serious illnesses can also take it to strengthen their bodies. This Taoist priest has some tricks up his sleeve."
Ouyang Feng also tasted one, praised it, and asked Ling Xuzi to refine a few more ordinary pills.
So Ling Xuzi refined many kinds of elixirs, including the Bigu Pill, the Heart Protecting Pill, the Bone Strengthening Pill, the Yiyang Pill, etc. Huang Yaoshi watched carefully, listening to Ling Xuzi's explanations while trying to learn the techniques of refining and collecting the pills.
After observing for most of the day, Master Huang Yaoshi gained a lot and said to Ouyang Feng:
"I already know how to use this furnace, and my alchemy skills have improved a lot. But I still need to practice making some ordinary pills first. Bring out all the alchemy materials you prepared, and I will try them one by one to familiarize myself with the medicinal properties."
Ouyang Feng nodded and said:
"As it should be."
He took Huang Yaoshi to a newly built material warehouse, explained to him the various materials produced in the blessed land, as well as the alchemy materials obtained from Lingxuzi's cave, and asked him:
"Is this enough?"
Huang Yaoshi nodded with satisfaction:
"More than enough."
He collected some materials and put them into his own storage talisman, then went to the alchemy room. Starting from drawing the earth fire, he tried to refine a furnace of Yang Yuan Pills. Each step was exactly the same as Ling Xuzi's. After only one try, he successfully refined a furnace of Yang Yuan Pills. The medicinal properties were not inferior to those refined by Ling Xuzi in any way, which shocked Ling Xuzi greatly.
Alchemy is not a common skill. Even if you have learned the art of alchemy, it is difficult to make good pills without a high talent for it.
For a novice alchemist, if he can succeed in one out of ten furnaces, it is already considered good. If he wants to reach Ling Xuzi's level, he will have to spend a lot of materials to practice. It can be said that every mature alchemist has a treasure made of countless materials.
But although Mr. Huang's cultivation was not particularly high, his talent in alchemy astounded Ling Xuzi.
Huang Yaoshi continued to try, first trying all the pills that Ling Xuzi had refined. After they were all successful, he started to play around, using his own understanding of the properties of various materials to try various permutations and combinations to refine new pills.
When creating your own new pill recipe, there will certainly be failures, but there are also many successes, and you will have made a lot of random pills.
Among them there are elixirs that can strengthen the body, replenish qi and essence, and even maintain youth and prolong life, but there are also poisonous pills that can kill instantly, or make people lose all their cultivation, become emaciated, and even cause their flesh and blood to become deformed, making life worse than death.
After trying for a few days, Huang Yaoshi had become thoroughly familiar with the medicinal properties of various materials, and began to figure out how to refine elixirs using dragon essence as the main ingredient.
Dragon Yuan is a rare treasure in heaven and earth, one-of-a-kind, so it is impossible to do experiments first - although Dragon Yuan can be decomposed into multiple small Dragon Yuans, when a large Dragon Yuan is broken into multiple small Dragon Yuans, a large amount of Yuan Qi will inevitably be lost and wasted. It is impossible to waste it in this way unless it is absolutely necessary.
Huang Yaoshi would not start refining the medicine right away. He locked himself in a secret room, and his mind worked rapidly. He constantly simulated the arrangements and combinations of Dragon Essence and various elixirs in his mind, and deduced the medicinal reactions.
This retreat lasted for a whole month.
During this month, the job of prime minister was naturally put aside, and Ouyang Feng had to take over. The eldest brother Ouyang Lie could no longer be lazy and had to handle state affairs together with Ouyang Feng.
It was not until a month later that Huang Yaoshi finally came out of seclusion and announced that a proper solution had been found.
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