fairy cage

Chapter 127
Another month has passed.

During this period of time, the old beggar followed Yu Lie, singing and singing every day and massaging every night.

Among them, Yu Lie went to play for a while, and rushed back to the yamen. He had to hurry up to exercise his body and control his pores.

But when the old beggar came back, he fell asleep.

After a good night's sleep, the other party called Yu Lie who had just closed his eyes, and slipped out of the yamen again to have fun.

After going on like this for a while, Yu Lie once again suspected that the other party was deliberately testing him, conducting an expert test or something.

But after some time passed, he realized that the other party was simply poor and lustful, and he caught his fat sheep and pulled the wool hard!

However, Yu Lie didn't dare to be disrespectful to the person who gave him a sleepy bug on his head, and the value of this sleepy bug alone was probably worth a powerful blood vessel.

The rest of the column will still be taken advantage of by the other party.

It's just that when the other party went out to have fun later, Yu Lie no longer followed him every time. He hung the storage bag he got from Fang Wumu on the iron railing, and let the other party take the money inside. .

This old beggar is quite polite, he takes as much as he needs from the storage bag every day, and doesn't take more.

After more than half a month passed, Yu Lie completed the precipitation of Qi and blood through the suppression of the prison, and then followed the other party to haunt teahouses and other places again.

And he took the time to go to the Daolu Academy to upgrade his Daolu grade.

It's a pity that Old Yutou may have gone down the mountain to do business, and he couldn't find the other party to talk about the old days.

And after getting the card of the high-ranking Taoist boy, Yu Lie can be regarded as a famous person in the whole Heishui Town.

But he hasn't enjoyed much benefit yet, he just went to the Library Pavilion and got the third level of Poison Art.

Because the big point soldiers were not finished, the credits were not settled, and temporarily suppressed the idea of ​​exchanging exercises. Yu Lie planned to see if he could make up the whole thing later, and get a chance to go to the fourth floor of Zangshu Pavilion.

On the contrary, it was the old beggar, after Yu Lieyi was promoted to the Taoist rank, the other party began to use his face to keep accounts in the town, and it was recorded under Yu Lie's accounts, and now he didn't even bother to carry the money.

The old beggar limped every day, happily going to and from the cage tea room and other places, quietly, without saying hello.

Yu Lie often doesn't know whether the other party has gone out or hasn't come back yet.

The other party's non-disturbance made it convenient for Yu Lie to continue to practice in seclusion in the Yamen prison.

It took a total of nearly three months. After Yu Lie had almost completely controlled the pores of his body, he began to practice alchemy in the cage according to the third-level poison technique, in an attempt to let himself cultivate "qi poison".

Because the town is in the midst of a large army, there are various types and quantities of poisons and medicinal materials in the town, which are very suitable for Yu Lie to conduct alchemy trials.

Now he can be regarded as the definitive hall master of the prescription hall, and all the prescriptions and other things in the hall can be taken by him.

But half a month has passed.

On this day, Yu Lie sat cross-legged in front of a big tripod.

The gunpowder in the copper tripod is red, and the high-quality animal charcoal illuminates the dark prison a lot.

Yu Lie closed his eyes slightly, and every 36 breaths, he stretched out his hand and patted the bronze tripod in front of him, using his own energy and blood to feel the heat in the bronze tripod.

It's just that the Daoist's qi and blood are far less sensitive than the Taoist's true qi. At most, he can vaguely feel the heat in the copper tripod, which is not very detailed, let alone mobilize the qi and blood, let it out, and actively adjust it. The fire in the alchemy furnace is hot, this effect can only be achieved by true energy.

Bang bang bang!
After Yu Lie slapped for nearly an hour, his heart beat slightly, and the movement suddenly stopped.

A depressed look appeared on his face.

Yu Lie stood up and lifted the lid of the copper tripod, and a burnt and bitter smell emanated from the tripod body.

Another batch of medicine, it can be regarded as completely useless.

Yu Lie just glanced at it, then looked away, and walked up and down barefoot on the cold metal altar.

He thought to himself: "Why didn't it work, I took out Fang Lao's altar, cut a lot of Shiyin Taisui, threw it in, and stabilized the properties of the medicine... Is there something wrong with the prescription?"

Yu Lie was tangled on the surface.

He looked at the slender bronze tripod, which was about as tall as himself, like a steamer in a drawer, and his various thoughts continued to churn:
"For the first time, it will take almost a year. After all, the time is too short. Although I know several kinds of pills, they are all irregular pills like Qiangxue Pill...

Should he use up the chance of getting promoted to a higher position and go to the library to look for this kind of poison prescription?Or give up self-refining? "

The third level of Poison Art, compared to the previous two levels, once cultivated, is to have a body that is invulnerable to a hundred poisons, and the physical body can ward off hundreds of toxins.

But to achieve this step, the poisons needed are not just a hundred kinds, but the quality of the poisons is not small.

But now the most powerful natural toxin that Yu Lie could find, the poison of the black snake fish king, had been adapted to him when he was practicing "bone poison".

In the past few days, he swallowed and wiped all the poison he could find.

In the end, not to mention the full progress in one breath, he didn't even have half of the poison that he had cultivated to "Qi Poison".

There are still many poisonous prescriptions recorded in the Medicine Prescription Hall, but in these prescriptions, gold, stone, vegetation, and flesh and blood are mixed, and the refining method is no longer like Qiangxue Pill, which does not even need "furnace fire".

These poisons are all of the best among the nine-grade prescriptions, and they must be refined using formal methods such as the fire method, water method, and sand method. The medicinal materials themselves are already very expensive, and the finished products are even more expensive. out of stock.

Although Yu Lie had just come back from the mountain and was well-off, he couldn't bear to ask the people in the alchemy room to make alchemy again and again.Not to mention, he is still supporting an old man who spends a lot of money in the town all day long.

Therefore, Yu Lie could only open the alchemy furnace by himself, and tried to refine the ninth-grade high-grade medicine without any guidance.

As a result, the part of the heat alone tortured him to death.

Every kind of poison prescription, for seven days in a row, one furnace every day, all of them were scrapped.

If it weren't for the bronze wine cup in his hand, the medicine dregs could still be used as waste, and Yu Lie's face would turn pale just because he felt sorry for the medicine.

Thoughts were in turmoil.

Yu Lie walked on the metal altar, more and more suspicious that he was a waste material, and felt discouraged.

Especially when he guessed that the time was almost up, he stepped on the altar, sighed, sometimes touched the copper tripod, and sometimes bumped his head against the tripod very hard.

Bang bang!

It's almost like crazy.

He kept muttering again and again: "Fire method, fire duration...it's trash!"

Such an "onset" took half a cup of tea. Yu Lie suddenly stopped, looked around quietly, and found that there was still no one in the prison.

He wondered in his heart: "That old thief, why hasn't he come back yet?"

That's right, Yu Lie's "illness" this time is to take the opportunity to show the old beggar in the prison a look, to win the other party's sympathy, and let the other party give advice.

It has been two months since the other party gave a sleepy bug, and this person has not expressed anything at all, so it is time for Yu Lie to take the initiative.

However, Yu Lie himself was not very sure.

Because if the old beggar is not good at alchemy at all, but is good at other skills, then even if the other party wants to give advice, it is probably powerless.

Yu Lie looked at the smoldering fire at the end of the copper tripod, and murmured in his heart: "If you don't know how to make alchemy, it is also possible to show me a way, give me a book, or make a bridge, and let me ask other people for advice."

"Continue to pack!" He was certain in his heart, and suddenly took out another earthen jar from his sleeve, and then poured it on the animal charcoal.

It's sizzling!

A foul-smelling and harsh smoke rose from the bottom of the tripod, and because Yu Lie was too close, he suffered instantly.

Even though his eyes had already reached the point of "whiteness from the void", and his lungs were astonishing, the thick smoke still confused his eyes with tears and choked his lungs.

"Cough, cough, cough!"

Standing on the metal altar, Yu Lie was almost snotting and crying, and coughed loudly: "Why does this smoke hit people so hard!"

He hesitated in his heart, whether he should quickly collect the charcoal fire, so as not to suffer further.But once you think that you have chosen to play pitiful, you have to play it thoroughly, so that even if the other party doesn't believe it, you can still amuse the other party.

Yu Lie also secretly thought: "With this thick smoke, I don't believe you can still sleep."

With his eyes tightly closed, tears dripping down his face, he coughed on the metal altar while sighing in disgrace.

Just when he really couldn't take it anymore, a figure finally appeared outside his cage.The other party limped closer, and it was the old beggar.

The old beggar had a refreshed look on his face, and he came back after he was obviously comfortable.

He stopped at the door of Yu Lie's cage, and saw the billowing smoke in the cage, making the whole prison smoky, but he was only slightly taken aback, unaffected at all.

The old beggar was still sniffing like an old smoker, with a look of enjoyment on his face:

"Bat urine? Tiger urine? Meat-winged tiger urine! This smell is strong enough!"

While talking, the other party continued to walk, and wanted to go back to sleep in his straw pile.

But Yu Lie was waiting for this person. Even though his eyes were red, he kept looking at the entrance and exit of the prison. How could he let him go to sleep directly.

Among them, he saw that the old beggar looked like he had nothing to do with himself, and he was enjoying himself, and his heart suddenly became complicated.

Yu Lie firstly felt resentful that he had lifted a rock and hit his own foot, and secondly, he also felt pleasantly surprised.

Because the old beggar just sniffed, he recognized that the smoke was poured out by Yu Lie on his own initiative, and it was the urine of a tiger with wings.

Even if the opponent is not good at alchemy, he will be a powerful person who is good at raising animals and insects!
If it's the latter, although the old beggar can't teach Yu Lie alchemy, he probably has a poison more powerful than the black snake fish king poison in his hand!
In this way, Yu Lie didn't even need to make alchemy.

Yu Lie coughed violently, opened his mouth and shouted: "Senior, help!"

The old beggar stopped, then turned his head, looked at Yu Lie, and said in surprise:
"Help? Brother Yu, last time you boasted to the old man that you could marry ten daughters in one night, and if you don't see them in a few days, you are about to save your life. Did you go to a powerful place to play without telling me?"

The other party pinched his beard that had been meticulously groomed by the teahouse woman Taoist, and shook his head: "Take it easy, young people don't know the value of essence, and when they are old, they will cry for nothing."

Yu Lie was already used to hearing the other party's teasing.

Seeing that he had already attracted the other party's attention, he stopped bluffing, but stepped down from the altar, bowed his waist and cupped his hands, and said directly:
"The boy is stupid. He failed in alchemy many times and almost died suddenly after taking medicine. I hope the Taoist priest can give some pointers."

Hearing Yu Lie's words, the old beggar looked at Yu Lie with a strange expression: "I don't read much, don't lie to me! Your refining medicine is poison, and it's easy to die when it's refined. If it's broken, I'll spare you A little life."

Yu Lie showed resentment, and shouted: "Master, listen to my sophistry!"

But the old beggar didn't bother to listen to him continue to put on a show, yawned, and continued to walk towards the straw pile.

Just when Yu Lie was showing disappointment, the old beggar reached into his armpit again, rubbed it, and popped out another mud pellet without looking back.

But this time the Niwan is no longer black, but red, the whole body looks like a red bean.

And a voice came from the next door: "Your boy is not suitable for the heat, so when refining the medicine, put it in the alchemy furnace and listen to it change."

Yu Lie was holding the red bean-shaped "niwan", and found that this red bean mud pill also wriggled and turned into a small bug.It's just that this one is different from the sleepy bug. It has no wings and is very hot.

"Can watch the fire, fire bug?"

Surprised in Yu Lie's heart, he hurriedly turned to the cage next door and shouted: "Thank you, Daoist."

After the fire bug popped out, the old beggar was already dead in the haystack, motionless, obviously he didn't want to talk to him any more.

Yu Lie quickly extinguished the coals under the copper tripod, and took out a talisman paper that could purify the miasma, and pasted it on the railing between himself and the old beggar, to clean up the smoke in the prison.

With piercing eyes, he pounded and ground the medicine again, and said to the red worm wriggling in his palm, "It's up to you, little guy!"

Then put the fire worms into the copper tripod together with the first batch of medicinal materials.

Yu Lie didn't fire in a hurry, but watched the fire worm slowly crawl to a place inside the copper tripod, and after he didn't move, he started alchemy again.

Next.

Yu Lie leaned against the fire bug and continued to observe the fire.

Although he failed again and again, he found that whenever the fire temperature in the copper tripod was different, the fire insects would make a buzzing sound, ranging from small to large.If the heat in the copper tripod is uneven, the humming and chirping of fire insects will also come and go, making it unstable.

With the fire bug, Yu Lie undoubtedly had a concrete and intuitive reminder of the heat of alchemy.

After several trials, although he stumbled, he succeeded in refining the first ninth-grade poison.

In the days that followed, Yu Lie sat in the prison and continued to refine medicine.

On the one hand, he was accumulating medicines for his own cultivation of Poison Art, and on the other hand, he was also using the fire insects to formally start fire alchemy and study.

After another half month like this, Yu Lie's poisoning skills have improved quite a bit, and it is just around the corner to cultivate "Qi Poison".

In alchemy, he became more and more proficient in the matter of heat, and sometimes he could "see" which stage the fire in the copper tripod was at without needing the reminder from the fire insect.

The only thing that disappointed Yu Lie was that since the old beggar threw him the second worm bean, the other party has been lying next door, unable to sleep for a long time, and never went out to have fun.

Even though Yu Lie sneaked out from time to time, brought tempting wine and meat, and put them in front of the other party, the old beggar remained motionless, as if he was dead.

at last.

The local wine and meat were changed and withdrawn, and Yu Lie's "qi poison" practice was only short of two or three flavors of poison.

Suddenly a Taoist boy opened the door in the yamen and called Yu Lie:
"Fellow Daoist, the big point soldiers are over!"

Yu Lie was taken aback for a moment, raised his head in a daze in the cage, and realized that it was time for him to get out of the prison.

He also understood that the two good fortunes between himself and the old beggar were over, it was time to leave, and there was no reason to disturb the other party.

Yu Lie ordered the Yamen Daotong to go out first, and he slowly packed up the copper tripod and other things, and went to the old beggar's cage.

He once again arranged a portion of wine and meat, covered it with straw, and bowed deeply:
"Thank you, Daoist, and see you soon."

After saluting, Yu Lie hung up the prison door, no longer missed it, submerged in the light, and left the prison completely.

When the darkness returned to the prison, there was silence.

Suddenly there was the sound of gobbling food, creaking and gurgling.

And there was a hey laugh: "I finally left, but I'm so hungry!"

In the cage, a slovenly figure was leaning against the railing, grabbing the meat with one hand, and the wine jar with the other, feasting on it with great joy.

(End of this chapter)