Chapter 156: Still nothing.
After Master Shanzheng and Shi Zelan went out, they both decided to stay at home and practice.
Zhenren Decheng went to the Taoist temple and naturally got a satisfactory answer.
Shi Xiaoliu practiced the water method to prepare elixirs, but failed again and again. He asked Shi Zelan, "Sister Lan, why can others prepare elixirs successfully using the water method, but I can't?"
"Xiao Liu, have you ever seen a pill made by water method?"
Shi Xiaoliu shook his head: "No, Master saw it once a long time ago, but that's all he saw."
"Xiao Liu, is it possible that the shape of the elixir produced by water method is different from that produced by fire method?"
Shi Xiaoliu listened to Shi Zelan's words, thought about it and nodded: "Yes, the shapes will definitely not be exactly the same. I will try a few more times."
Shi Xiaoliu turned around to try the water method to prepare the elixir, while Shi Zelan sat under the eaves and drew talismans.
At 3 p.m., Master Decheng came back from outside and saw Shi Zelan drawing talismans under the eaves. He asked, "Where are your master and Xiaoliu?"
Shi Zetou smiled when he saw Master Decheng: "Uncle Master, you are back. Master and Xiaoliu are both in the room."
Shi Zelan went into the kitchen, boiled some water, and made a pot of tea for Master Decheng and brought it out.
"Uncle Master, have some tea."
Master Decheng picked up the teacup and drank the tea. He said to Shi Zelan, "Next spring, Sister Lan will come and provide free medical treatment with us."
"Well, I know a lot of herbs."
With something to do, the four of them living here wouldn't be too conspicuous.
"Sister Lan, do you think Xiaoliu will be successful in preparing the elixir with water?"
"Uncle, I think so."
"You have confidence in Xiaoliu, Sister Lan?"
"Master, Xiaoliu has great confidence in himself. I believe in Xiaoliu."
Master Decheng listened to her and nodded, saying, "He is also very confident in you and believes that you will definitely break the curse. What do you think?"
"Evil has never triumphed over good since ancient times, and our Shi family has never produced any extremely evil people.
That person didn't dare to argue and resist in front of my master and my parents, but instead attacked a baby. His character was perverted.
I can now practice cultivation, practice sword skills, and draw talismans. His curse can no longer block my path of cultivation. ”
Shi Zelan told Master Decheng with some pride that she believed she would be able to break the curse on her one day.
Master Decheng looked at Shi Zelan and smiled: "Sister Lan will definitely be able to successfully build her foundation."
Master Shanzheng came out of the room and saw Master Decheng talking to Shi Zelan. He smiled and said, "Brother, you're back."
"I'm back, and I've arranged everything for the spring."
Shi Zelan took two steps back and poured a cup of tea directly for Master Shanzheng.
Shanzheng Zhenren took the tea and said to Shi Zelan, "Did you draw the talisman smoothly this afternoon?"
"Master, for a little while, the painting wasn't going very smoothly."
Shi Zelan looked at Master Shanzheng curiously: "Master, everything went very smoothly afterwards."
Master Shanzheng glanced at Master Decheng and said to Shi Zelan, "Nothing happened, but your uncle must have mentioned you and me outside in the afternoon."
Master Decheng was surprised and said, "I also mentioned Xiaoliu. When Xiaoliu comes out later, I will ask him about his situation."
Master Shanzheng looked at Master Decheng and said, "What you are about to do will definitely interfere with the order of life in the secular world."
After hearing what Shanzheng said, Master Decheng said to Shi Zelan, "Sister Lan, after the snow stops, you and Xiaoliu should go to the mountain."
Shi Zelan turned to look at Master Shanzheng, and when he nodded, he asked Master Decheng in confusion: "There is a lot of snow on the mountain, should we go to the mountain to dig medicinal herb roots?"
Master Decheng looked thoughtful, so Shi Zelan stopped asking questions. After all, they knew what they would face when they went to the mountain.
The sky was dark and the moon was hanging high in the sky, making the winter night seem especially cold.
Shi Xiaoliu opened the door with a happy expression on his face. He first saw Shi Zelan sitting in the yard: "Sister Lan, let me show you the elixir I made with the water method."
Shi Zelan reached out to take the pill and felt something move faintly in the black pill. She looked at Shi Xiaoliu and said, "Xiaoliu, you are really capable. Is this pill very effective?"
Shi Xiaoliu sighed: "The effect is good, but it can't be preserved for a long time."
Shi Zelan looked at the disappointed expression on his face and said to him, "Go ask your uncle, maybe he has a good solution for this."
Shi Xiaoliu took the elixir to see Master Decheng. After looking at it, Master Decheng said to Shi Xiaoliu, "Now you understand why the water method of concoction was lost in the end, right?"
"Master, is there really no other way to preserve the efficacy of the medicine for a long time?"
“Water has vitality only when it flows. If it does not flow, it will easily decay.”
"Master, I understand. I will never do useless work again."
"It's not completely in vain. Please write down your experience and I will send it back to the medicine pavilion for collection and pass it on to someone who is destined to know it later."
Shi Xiaoliu blushed slightly: "Master, I'm not a foundation-building cultivator, so I don't need it."
"Yes. The things you read in the medicine cabinet before were also the experience of our predecessors."
Shi Xiaoliu returned to his room and carefully recorded the process of preparing the elixir using the water method, and handed it directly to Master Decheng.
He later whispered to Shi Zelan: "Many years later, if there are disciples in the Medicine Pavilion who are interested in water-based processing, they will definitely be able to find my experience records."
Shi Zelan looked at him with admiration and said to him, "When the snow stops, Master Uncle said we should go to the mountains. Do you know what we are going to do?"
Shi Xiaoliu shook his head: "Master hasn't told me about going up the mountain yet."
A few days later, the snow finally stopped. Master Decheng said to Shi Xiaoliu and Shi Zelan, "Tomorrow, you go to the east mountain. As for what you can find, it depends on your luck."
Shi Xiaoliu and Shi Zelan were very surprised to see him. Was he so casual and aimless?
"No matter if you find anything or not, you must come back down the mountain at 3 p.m., understand?"
"I know." Shi Xiaoliu and Shi Zelan agreed.
Before dawn the next day, Shi Xiaoliu and Shi Zelan were already lining up in the crowd leaving the city, waiting for the city gate to open.
The city gate opened. After the two of them walked out of the city gate, when there was no one on the road, they walked quickly all the way up the mountain in the east.
They went up the mountain and when they came to a fork in the road, they looked at each other and chose the middle road up the mountain.
Before noon, they were already standing halfway up the mountain. Shi Zelan looked at Shi Xiaoliu and said, "Xiaoliu, do you feel anything?"
Shi Xiaoliu shook his head and said to Shi Zelan, "There's no one on the mountain right now. Let's hurry to the top."
"All right."
Both of them thought that perhaps they could see something on the top of the mountain, but when they reached the top, they still found nothing.
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