Chapter 3 Chapter 3 Alchemy
Qin Zhou bought another hoe and returned to the village.
After breakfast, Qin Zhou went into the alchemy room and prepared to process the thirty Lingxin fruits.
The flesh of the Spirit Heart Fruit is the lowest-level material for making pills, and can be used right after it is picked off. The core of the Spirit Heart Fruit can be used as a seed, and buried in the soil that is nourished by spiritual energy, it will take root and sprout without much effort.
It is a spiritual crop with extremely strong growth ability. Compared with other things that take several years to sprout, the Lingxin fruit sprouts in ten days, blooms in ten days, and bears fruit in ten days.
The harvest can be harvested once a month.
If the well in the yard could be dug, the time it would take for the Lingxin Fruit to grow could be reduced by half.
This fruit cannot be widely cultivated in the mortal world because there is too little spiritual energy here, and there are few fields where spiritual energy gathers to provide nutrients for crops.
He will use the pulp of these thirty Lingxin fruits to make pills, and he plans to scatter the remaining fruit cores in the fields on the back mountain.
After separating the flesh and cores of all the Lingxin fruits, Qin Zhou picked up his hoe and went to the back mountain.
Chen San followed the young master closely, not knowing what he was going to do.
But there must be a reason for what the young master does.
Then, Qin Zhou started digging the wasteland.
Qin Zhou dug the wood with the hoe, but his posture was not skillful enough and Chen San, who was standing by, was stunned.
Young Master...when will you learn to do farm work?
"Master, let me do the digging." Chen San said, and wanted to go to the field.
"No need, I'll do it myself." Qin Zhou raised his hand to stop him.
"By the way, Chen San, the young master of the Zhang family, do you recognize him?" Qin Zhou suddenly said.
Chen San paused, "I recognize it."
"Tell me about it."
Is the young master testing him? Yes, if he wants to stay with the young master in the future, there are some people he must recognize.
Chen San told him everything he knew.
There is only one famous person with the surname Zhang in Pingcheng, and the feud between him and the Qin family is simple and clear, it is nothing more than a competition between peers.
However, the pills sold in Zhang’s shop were a mix of real and fake, their effectiveness was not good, and they were not as reputable as those sold in Qin’s shop.
In short, they just don't like each other.
Young Master Qin is of a gentle nature, not as domineering as Young Master Zhang, and is always taken advantage of verbally by him.
"This time, Young Master... the matter of becoming a disciple and joining the sect has not been going well. Young Master Zhang must have received the news. When he sees you, I'm afraid he will..." Chen San said softly, "Young Master, don't listen to those words, they are all bad words!"
Qin Zhou thought, I have already met him and heard all the bad things about him.
"Okay, got it."
Thinking about it this way, the fact that he failed the civil service exam was known to everyone, and it was probably related to this Young Master Zhang.
He is not a vindictive person, but he is not so generous as to allow others to bully him. He will settle this account later.
"Master, is that enough?" Chen San was puzzled when he saw Qin Zhou put down his hoe after digging half a piece of land.
"Well, let's plant this many first." He took out the fruit cores and buried them in the soil one by one.
After burying it, just wait for it to sprout.
If it can sprout, it means that this piece of land is still the spiritual field in his original game.
Qin Zhou had no other choice. If he were a cultivator, he might be able to tell at a glance whether there was spiritual energy in the field. Unfortunately, with this 0.01 talent growth, he didn't know when he would be able to break through and become a cultivator, so he could only resort to this last resort.
After all, practice makes perfect.
He also had a hunch that perhaps only after he truly stepped into the realm of an immortal cultivator would he be able to truly unlock the game's save files.
Including this unlocked backpack.
And this alchemy furnace cannot be used.
Returning to the alchemy room, Qin Zhou looked at the three-legged alchemy furnace that was half a person's height in front of him and felt that it was as he expected.
Qin Zhou vaguely remembered that he had upgraded this alchemy furnace level by level. The game system was strict, and a level one alchemy furnace could only refine elementary elixirs. The higher the level, the rarer the elixir.
In order to raise the villagers' attribute talents, he put a lot of effort into this alchemy furnace.
Now it seems that even if it is a spiritual tool that has recognized its master, whether it is a Qiankun bag (backpack) or an alchemy furnace, it will still be useless without the owner's spiritual power to activate it after sleeping for thousands of years.
In this case, he would have to find another way to make the marrow cleansing pill.
"Chen San."
"What's wrong, Master!"
"We have to go home early."
The furnace in his alchemy room cannot be used, but there must be an alchemy furnace in the Qin Mansion that can be used.
Anyway, it takes ten days for the Lingxin Fruit seeds to germinate.
…
Little did they know that just after Qin Zhou and Chen San left, someone came to the village.
A beam of light poured down from mid-air.
A figure appeared quietly.
The man was dressed in white, with black hair and a jade hairpin the color of mutton fat on his head. He stood in the air, looking at the quiet and silent village in the distance, frowning slightly.
The divine consciousness spread out with him as the center, like ripples in the water gradually spreading out.
Huh? No one.
It was hard to tell whether it was a feeling of loss or something else. The young man seemed to have gotten used to the feeling of having his expectations dashed.
He landed lightly.
In front of him was the courtyard at the entrance of the village. The barrier he had created was still intact.
The young man came to the door and pushed it open.
He was the one who set up the barrier, so of course it wouldn't stop him.
However, when he pushed the door open, the scene he saw scared him.
There were obvious signs of someone having moved around the courtyard. The ground was clean and tidy, the moss around the well had been removed, and even the plaques hanging on each room had been wiped clean as if they were new.
Obviously, someone had lived here.
If it were those guys, they wouldn't have cleaned the place so thoroughly.
The young man stood in the yard for a long time. The maple tree outside the wall dropped yellow leaves, which slowly drifted down and landed on his shoulders.
After a moment, he put away the nostalgia in his eyes and said to himself coldly, "Even if the house is cleaned, it is still rude to move in without the owner's consent."
As soon as the voice fell, a voice suddenly came from outside the yard——
"Is that true? Is the young master of the Qin family really crazy? He ran to live in this mountain, what a barren place! Our young master is the same, why did he ask us to find out about Qinzhou?"
"That's right. Qin Zhou has been rejected by so many sects. It's obvious that he can't cultivate immortality. As long as there is no one in the Qin family who can cultivate immortality, the medicine business in Pingcheng will sooner or later belong to the Zhang family. What tricks can Qin Zhou come up with?"
"Forget it, we are just servants, we just follow orders. Hey, there is a shabby yard in front."
"A shabby yard? Go take a look!"
The young man watched them come to the door but ignored them.
He had set up a barrier in the courtyard so that no one could get in. Even if they did, they would just be trapped in a maze and have to go out again.
The young man was obviously very confident in his barrier.
In the underworld, no one can break his barrier.
Therefore, he became interested in the "Qinzhou" mentioned by these two people.
It wasn't the old man, nor was it the bunch of rubbish from the upper realm. The person who broke his barrier, moved into the courtyard, and cleaned the courtyard up -
"Qin Zhou."
…
Qin Zhou, who had already reached the foot of the mountain, suddenly looked back.
"Master?"
"It's okay." Qin Zhou shook his head.
…
Pingcheng and the small mountain village are not far away, and can be reached in half an hour by horseback riding.
When Qin Zhou brought Chen San back to Pingcheng, it was not yet late, so he simply went straight to the shop again.
When the shopkeeper saw him coming back with the bag, he knew what was going on.
"Master, why don't you give me these elixir materials? I will put them into the furnace when the immortal master who is going to make elixirs comes over someday. If you want elixirs, there are some left in the warehouse..."
Qin Zhou asked, "How often do alchemists come here?"
The shopkeeper was stunned. The young master was so absorbed in cultivating himself that he never asked about anything in the shop.
"Master, I come here once every six months, and refine two furnaces each time. Each furnace can produce about twenty pills."
"What about wages?"
"150 Spiritual Stones."
The money of cultivators is called Lingshi. One Lingshi is worth about 100 taels of silver, which is the expenditure of an ordinary family for several years.
"What is the price of the elixir sold in our shop?"
"Master, it varies from 5 to 10 spirit stones." It depends on the quality.
It's huge profits.
But it is clear that this thing is not easy to sell, as only two furnaces are produced in a year. The salary of the alchemist is also a shocking expense.
Qin Zhou thought about it and suddenly said, "How about quitting the alchemist job?"
The shopkeeper was shocked, "Master, this alchemist is a disciple of the immortal sect, you can't dismiss him easily."
For the Qin family, the only thing that can rival the Zhang family's is these two furnaces of elixirs.
And it is not a loss to give out this salary. It seems that it is given to the alchemist, but in fact it is also to please the immortal sect behind the alchemist.
The shopkeeper didn't know what was wrong with the young master. Was he really so upset about not being able to enter the immortal gate that he even made random comments about the Qin family's business?
Qin Zhou saw the shopkeeper's expression and said, "Can I use the alchemy room?"
The shopkeeper was even more puzzled, but thinking about the alchemy materials that the young master took from the shop today, he understood a little, "Young master, do you want to make an elixir?"
"Um."
The shopkeeper shook his head repeatedly, seeming to be hesitant to speak.
“Why can’t it be used?”
The shopkeeper looked bitter, "Master... it's not that I won't let you use it, but..."
“You can speak frankly.”
"Master! This alchemy requires the use of magic. The alchemist is not here right now, and we don't have anyone who can make the alchemy."
People without spiritual power cannot make elixirs!
The shopkeeper had a sullen face. He knew that the young master cared about this, and he also knew that it was the young master's pain that he didn't have enough talent to enter the immortal sect. He didn't want to say it! But this was the fact!
Even Chen San, who was standing behind Qin Zhou, felt a jolt in his heart.
They didn't dare to breathe, for fear of the young master's reaction.
But Qin Zhou was still calm. He just said in a flat tone: "The spell can only better control the temperature. As for using the divine fire to make pills, I think the master who makes pills for the Qin family shop is not at that level. If it's just about controlling the temperature, I can do it too."
To put it bluntly, ordinary people can make primary elixirs. It's just that the ingredients are too expensive. However, even if I say this, no one will believe it.
These words were clearly spoken by the unsuccessful young master of the Qin family, but for some reason, the calm and peaceful tone seemed to be full of credibility, causing everyone present to cast their eyes towards him.
Master, something seems to be different, but I can't tell what it is.
After a moment, the shopkeeper compromised, "Master, the alchemy room is inside. Do you want it now...?"
Qin Zhou nodded, "It's been a while since I peeled the Lingxin Fruit. I have to use it as soon as possible."
The shopkeeper had no choice but to take the person over.
Never mind, let the young master try. Even if it fails, at least he can recognize himself clearly.
But the shopkeeper still couldn’t understand. The young master had been away from home for only a few days, and when he came back he swore that he could make pills. Could it be that he had some adventure during those few days?
The guys in the shop didn't dare to say anything when they heard what they said, but they were also very curious. They had never heard that Young Master Qin could make pills.
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