1oo49 New Urban Farmers Chapter Ninety-Six: Wasted Elixir and Completed Elixir
After Jiang planted the five kinds of rare medicinal herbs, Zhang Guodong made another trip to Taoyuan to inspect the medicinal herbs. Five ginseng plants (15 years old and 14 pieces each), one ginseng plant (14 pieces each and 5 13 years old), one ginseng plant (10 years old) and five ginseng plants (9 years old) were also neatly transplanted together. Three rare medicinal herbs!
A section of the area next to this stone tablet, which is a hundred times more spiritually potent, will be designated specifically for planting these peerless medicinal herbs.
Zhang Guodong transplanted all the other newly collected precious medicinal herbs into the Taoyuan Medicinal Herb Garden, which was ten times the size of the original area! However, once these herbs were transplanted, the Taoyuan Medicinal Herb Garden immediately expanded by more than two times, with 249 kinds of medicinal herbs planted, most of which were quite precious!
"Oh dear! I forgot the most important medicinal herb!" After watering the transplanted herbs with his spatial water, Zhang Guodong suddenly remembered that the Ganoderma lucidum was still underground.
The difference between a tenfold and a hundredfold region is enormous; it would be a real shame not to transplant such a treasure of nature there!
Zhang Guodong quickly ran to the edge of the pool and noted the location: three meters southeast of the ground, one meter away.
deep.
Zhang Guodong began to wield the shovel in his hand.
Digging a pit more than a meter deep was tiring before, but now the shovel moved like the wind. Soon, a purple light flashed like an eye.
The meat-like Ganoderma lucidum has been discovered!
"Wow, that's amazing!" Zhang Guodong carefully dug away the soil and used some strength to lift the meat-shaped Ganoderma lucidum out. Less than twenty of them didn't seem to have increased the weight. But their purple color was so vibrant and luscious, like a purple gemstone.
It's obvious that Ganoderma lucidum grows very well in the 10x growth zone!
This is an excellent sign!
The spiritual energy emanating from the main fleshy Ganoderma lucidum was stronger than before, indicating that it had absorbed a lot of spiritual energy during this period.
"I have high hopes for you, hehe!" Zhang Guodong was pleasantly surprised, wondering how much the meat Ganoderma could grow in the 100x zone.
Zhang Guodong was overjoyed and excited as he reburied the Ganoderma lucidum in the ground next to the stone tablet and marked it with a pebble weighing about ten kilograms.
I've collected all nine kinds of peerless medicinal herbs here. Among the five immortal herbs and three rare medicines, there's an extra one: a flat-capped Ganoderma lucidum.
And to what extent will the nine medicinal herbs grow in the 100x zone?
After fighting, Dahei and Erhei came over to play and fawn over Zhang Guodong. Zhang Guodong laughed and played for a while, then realized that it had been more than half an hour.
So I quickly came out!
When Zhang Guodong emerged from that grove of trees, there was no one around.
When they arrived back at Elder Yi's residence, they sensed that Elder Yi and Xiao Hu were not there but in the alchemy room.
"Knock knock knock!" Zhang Guodong knocked on the Danfang River.
"Grandpa wants you to come in!" Xiao Hu said as he opened the door and saw Zhang Guodong. This kid never called Zhang Guodong "Brother Guodong," he always addressed him as "you."
Old Yi is preparing medicine at this moment.
"It's for treating that person's illness," said Xiao Hu.
Zhang Guodong nodded and didn't disturb them, instead scanning the alchemy room. A strong smell of herbs wafted from the medicine cabinet drawers, filling the air.
The alchemy room was almost half occupied by two large medicine cabinets.
Suddenly, Zhang Guodong's gaze narrowed and focused on a milky-white, tall-legged cauldron. The cauldron was about a foot tall, and its legs were half the height of the cauldron, making the interior appear much smaller.
The cauldron's interior is shaped like an upright egg with a lid.
A medicine furnace?
Zhang Guodong's breath hitched. A pill-refining furnace?!
The bottom of the furnace was stained yellow, yet its luster was dazzling. The spiritual energy in the entire cauldron was condensed and did not dissipate! On the contrary, it was subtly absorbing the strands of free spiritual energy in the air, even though this process was extremely slow.
"Little Tiger, is that the alchemy furnace that Elder Yi used for refining pills? What does it use to heat it?" Zhang Guodong asked, suppressing his excitement.
"Grandpa used it to refine the Snake Spirit Pill, so he used firewood. What else could it be?" Xiaohu said matter-of-factly. Could anything else be burned without firewood?
Zhang Guodong broke out in a cold sweat. Burning it with firewood? Aren't they all about some kind of special flame? Haha, that's going too far.
Master Yi used ordinary firewood when he was refining pills!
"Coughing wood is very convenient, but why isn't the bottom of the furnace black?" Zhang Guodong coughed and said. The smoke turned it black, but this medicine furnace was slightly yellow, which raised some questions.
"After each alchemy session, I have to clean the furnace. It turns slightly yellow over time, which is normal!"
Zhang Guodong broke out in a cold sweat and dared not ask any more questions. However, he was certain in his heart that the alchemy might be real. One shouldn't easily believe anything without seeing it with one's own eyes.
Sitting down, watching Old Man Yi prepare medicine, he would occasionally chat with Xiao Hu about other things, such as interesting things about mountains and rivers, usually related to the mountains.
Xiao Hu, being a young boy at heart, temporarily set aside his interest in chatting about nature, catching birds, and trapping rabbits, and instead became interested in Zhang Guodong's kung fu. He thought Zhang Guodong's punch was incredibly impressive!
Mentioning kung fu, Zhang Guodong's heart skipped a beat. He asked, "Xiao Hu, what kind of kung fu do you practice?"
"Grandpa taught me!" Little Tiger said, his eyes darting around. "How about we spar a bit? Grandpa says your kung fu is amazing!"
I don't believe it!
Zhang Guodong was annoyed. What was the point of fighting with a child? He was being looked down upon by a child.
At this moment, Old Man Yi coughed and the two turned around.
"Little Tiger, stop fooling around. You can't even withstand one move from your brother Guodong," Old Man Yi said. "Give this medicine to your father. Boil one portion with three bowls of water down to one bowl. Have the person with the injured sternum drink it once a day for three days, then stop!"
Xiao Hu reluctantly accepted the three packets of medicinal herbs and left the alchemy room.
Old Yi chuckled and said to Zhang Guodong, "Children are just being competitive, Guodong, don't mind."
“Little Tiger is much to my liking. Elder Yi, you’re overthinking it. But Elder Yi, although Little Tiger is young, his kung fu is very high. What kind of kung fu is it?” Zhang Guodong asked.
Ignoring Zhang Guodong's rude questioning about the secrets of the martial arts, Elder Yi said, "It's an ancestral skill called 'Walking Posture Technique.' I doubt anyone has heard of it. Even if I don't mention it, you can already tell that this is the alchemy room, and that tall, small furnace is the medicine furnace I mentioned, made from jade essence!"
"Heat the medicine stove. Firewood will do. However, a stable fire source is crucial; you have to master the heat yourself when using firewood, and experience is very important."
"I plan to start refining a batch of Serpent Spirit Pills tomorrow. You'll be there to watch!"
"Okay! Hehe, thank you, Elder Yi!" Zhang Guodong said. "However, Elder Yi, I still have many questions in my mind, and I would appreciate it if you could answer them for me."
"For example, what constitutes a successful refining process, and what constitutes a failed refining process? Are there different grades for the finished pill?"
Old Yi chuckled and began to explain.
Master Yi refers to failed pills as "waste pills," while successful ones are called "complete pills." Generally speaking, complete pills are extremely rare, making it difficult to distinguish between them.
However, in theory, there should be distinctions in the quality and grade of elixirs.
It's just that most of them are currently impossible to assess.
With too few suitable medicinal herbs for alchemy and a low success rate, it's impossible to produce more snake spirits.
Come
"Currently, three portions of the eighteen medicinal herbs are needed to refine one Snake Spirit Pill! If we fail, this pill-refining effort will be wasted," Elder Yi said regretfully.
The three portions of medicinal herbs consist of fifty-four very high-grade and precious medicinal herbs!
Zhang Guodong was speechless. According to this calculation, the cost of one Snake Spirit Pill would be several thousand or even tens of thousands of yuan! But Old Man Yi generously gave him the Snake Spirit Pill that Li Ningguang had thrown away.
Perhaps if this Serpent Spirit Pill were sold outside the mountains, it could fetch at least 30,000!
But how effective will it actually be?
Zhang Guodong stored the Serpent Spirit Pill in Peach Blossom Spring, in a jade box. He had seen the Serpent Spirit Pill; its luster was reddish, like a fiery pill.
However, the spiritual energy in the strange pill dissipates extremely slowly; at that rate, it could probably be stored for up to twenty years. If placed in a jade box, the spiritual energy hardly dissipates.
Despite the difficulties Master Yi described in alchemy, Zhang Guodong made a decision: no matter what, he would obtain the formula for the Snake Spirit Pill, or at least other medicinal formulas.
With the medicinal herbs of Taoyuan as his backing, he was willing to give it a try.
“The pills obtained from poorly refined pills are generally dull in color and have basically lost all spirituality. Come and take a look.” As he said this, Old Man Yi walked to the medicine cabinet, unlocked a drawer, and took out two jade boxes.
Clearly, Elder Yi also knew how to preserve the elixirs.
Zhang Guodong noticed that the two jade boxes were quite large. One box contained eighteen pills identical to the Serpent Spirit Pills, brimming with spiritual energy; the other contained dozens of dull, fiery red pills, but their spiritual energy had almost completely dissipated – these were the useless pills Elder Yi had mentioned!
"The difference between Cheng Dan and Liu Jun Dan lies in whether spiritual energy can be preserved in large quantities within them?" Zhang Guodong thought to himself.
Sensing the successful and unsuccessful pills, Zhang Guodong did not find any difference in the medicinal materials used. They were made from the same material or the same medicinal materials. The only difference was that the former successfully gathered spiritual energy, while the latter dissipated completely.
"Is it impossible for Elder Yi to improve the success rate of alchemy?"
Elder Yi smiled and said, "Of course there are ways to improve the success rate, and Purple Jade Sand is one of them. However, its main function is to promote the fusion of medicinal materials into pills. It can only slightly increase the success rate at present. For successful pill refining, firstly, it depends on the alchemy furnace, which is unsolvable; secondly, it depends on the quality of the medicinal materials themselves—the higher the quality, the higher the success rate."
A medicine furnace?
What Master Yi was probably referring to was the difficulty in collecting large quantities of jade essence, and perhaps the issue of design dimensions? There's always a most suitable size. For Zhang Guodong, this isn't the biggest problem.
Zhang Guodong and Ran Heyi had some guesses about what the old man was saying about the medicinal herbs.
Ultimately, it's related to spiritual energy!
Thinking this way, he felt relieved and stopped bringing up the matter. What was his greatest asset? He could sense spiritual energy and had the spiritually rich environment of Peach Blossom Spring to cultivate medicinal herbs!
After reading the completed and discarded pills, seeing that Zhang Guodong didn't ask any more questions, the old man put them away and locked them up.
"Now I'll show you the purple jade sand. This is the most crucial auxiliary material." Old Yi walked to the other side and opened a drawer. Zhang Guodong's spirits lifted.
nice one!
This alchemy room contains numerous spiritual energy sources of varying sizes, and this drawer is the largest. It contains the purple jade sand that Elder Yi spoke of!
The medicinal herbs dry out with a little water and turn to ash when burned, yet this miraculous purple jade sand can liquefy and condense the herbs into pills?!
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