Chapter 2 Weird Scene
“Good wine!”
Chen Lin sighed in admiration.
Zhao Zhengyuan smiled proudly, "That's natural. This is my family's ability to eat. My ability to live in this city depends entirely on this skill."
"Well, Brother Zhao, this is The brewing skills are truly amazing.”
Chen Lin nodded, then looked at the other person and said, "By the way, didn't I say some time ago that Brother Zhao planned to refine the elixir? How is the refining going?"
Zhao Zhengyuan's face fell.
The feeling of pride disappeared in an instant.
“Oh, don’t mention it.”
Zhao Zhengyuan sighed and shook his head repeatedly.
But he immediately raised his chin high, squinted his eyes and sneered: "It's hard for me to be able to defeat you with just a small alchemy skill, but I, Zhao Zhengyuan, come from a family of alchemists!"
Chen Lin's mouth couldn't help but twitch. Twitching, he also squinted and sneered in reply: "Yes, yes, Brother Zhao With his perseverance and talent, he will succeed sooner or later."
Zhao Zhengyuan smiled bitterly and returned to normal: "I'll lend you some good advice. It's a pity that my inheritance is incomplete, otherwise, there might be a chance."< br>
Chen Lin grinned and said nothing more.
Communicating with people here is really a torture.
Because they don't seem to know about such anomalies.
The two began to drink in silence.
“By the way, Brother Zhao, everyone says that refining alchemy is difficult, is it really that difficult?”
Seeing that he had drank more than half the bottle of wine and had almost eaten the meat and porridge, Chen Lin Finally started asking him for the information he wanted to know.
Although the other person's temperament will change at any time, if you can't leave, you can only blend in. And when there is no 'illness', everyone is still normal.
The resources here are very scarce, and pills for improving cultivation are impossible to buy given his status.
Otherwise, he wouldn’t have had a whim and used spiritual rice porridge to break through the bottleneck.
And he didn’t want to stay in this strange place for a moment longer. He only wanted to break through the middle stage of Qi training and escape from here.
But in the middle stage of Qi training, it is impossible to practice spells, and monsters are rampant outside the city. If you leave rashly, you will die faster.
So, he planned to make the elixir himself.
He has the ability to hit the target ten times. As long as he has the tools, materials and elixir recipe, he can definitely refine it.
Zhao Zhengyuan was also a little tipsy and breathed out a breath of wine: "What do you think, if it were not difficult, would even the lowest Qi-tonifying pill be so expensive?"
"But yes, I heard even that Among the several foundation-building families, each family only has one alchemist. If Brother Zhao can succeed, you can go to the inner city to enjoy the blessings immediately. Don’t forget about my little brother then!”
Chen Lin! Fill the other person's glass with wine.
Then he said casually: "Brother Zhao, since you have started trying to make elixirs, you must have mastered the elixir formula. What kind of elixir is it? Can you tell me the elixir formula?"
Zhao Zhengyuan paused, sneered normally, and glanced at Chen Lin, "Why, you also want to make an elixir?"
Before Chen Lin could speak, he continued: "Refining an elixir is not that easy. I advise you to study the art of making talismans."
Chen Lin didn't take it seriously after seeing through his thoughts.
There are many people who want to learn alchemy. It is normal for them to want to learn.
But now that it was clear, he simply went straight to the point.
"Yes, I do want to learn alchemy. My qualifications are too low. My cultivation has been stuck on the second level of Qi training for so many years. Without the help of elixirs, I may not be able to break through. But you also know that all the elixirs in the city have been destroyed. Under the control of the big family, it is impossible for low-level casual cultivators like us to buy it, so I came up with the idea of refining my own elixir. No matter what, I will give it a try without leaving any regrets."
Chen. Lin's words made Zhao Zhengyuan sigh.
He felt the same way.
Rogue cultivators, especially low-level casual cultivators, are too difficult.
After hesitating for a moment, he shook his head: "I do have a prescription. I can sell it to you if you want it. But let me declare in advance that this prescription is defective. Don't say I lied. You.”
"What defect?"
Chen Lin asked immediately.
Zhao Zhengyuan fumbled in his arms for a while, and then took out a yellowed paper roll. He pressed it under his hand and said: "The elixir prescriptions are all inherited by ancient cultivators, but with the changes in the world of immortality, , some ancient elixirs have been discontinued, The current elixir prescriptions are all modified by the alchemist himself after many attempts to find alternative elixirs, which is why the elixir prescriptions are so rare."
As he spoke, he unfolded the paper to reveal that it was densely packed. The fine print.
I touched the handwriting for a while and sighed: "Although the prescription I got has been revised, it may have been a long time ago. One of the elixirs is now scarce. The elixir is Its own value far exceeds the value of the elixir.”
After gently stroking the elixir, Zhao Zhengyuan continued: "I had no choice but to replace it with a cheap elixir based on its properties. Whether I can refine the elixir is still unknown."
"Substitute it myself. ?”
Chen Lin tapped the table with his fingers, a look of doubt on his face.
"Haha." Zhao Zhengyuan's temperament changed, he squinted and sneered: "Fellow Daoist Chen, don't look at me, Mr. Zhao, who has never refined an elixir, but I come from a family of alchemists, and I am very good at pharmacological and medicinal effects. With in-depth research, it is not easy to improve a recipe! ”
"Really, let me see what you replaced?"
Chen Lin ignored the other party's sick bragging and reached out to grab Danfang.
But he was blocked back by the other party.
Zhao Zhengyuan rolled up the elixir recipe again and said, "Three hundred spiritual stones if you want!"
"It's expensive."
Chen Lin retracted his hand and took a sip of porridge.
“This is a pill recipe, and it is a pill recipe to increase your cultivation. Three hundred spirit stones are still expensive? If you go through the normal way, you can’t buy it no matter how many spirit stones you take!”
Zhao Zhengyuan stared and said angrily.
Chen Lin shook his head, "That's a normal prescription you mentioned. It's basically a useless prescription like yours. Who can buy it? Well, I'm just using it for research anyway. I'll give you 20 yuan. I just bought it for fun."
"Twenty pieces of spirit stone? Are you kidding? What kind of elixir can you buy at this price?"
Zhao Zhengyuan shouted loudly.
Chen Lin stopped talking and just drank porridge.
If the other party didn't want to sell, he would have left long ago. Since he didn't, it means that the other party is very eager to sell.
And he was not sure whether his natural ability would be effective on this flawed recipe, and he was unwilling to invest too much.
The most important thing is that he is also very poor, and it is very distressing to use up the wealth he has accumulated over the years of scrimping on food and clothing.
Sure enough, Zhao Zhengyuan groaned for a while and then relaxed.
"Add more, the minimum is fifty yuan, and you have to swear not to spread the word."
This price is acceptable to Chen Lin, and he nodded and said: "Okay, but we still have to trouble Zhao. Brother, please explain to me the common sense and precautions of alchemy."
After a stick of incense.
Zhao Zhengyuan looked like he had been taken advantage of and left depressed.
Chen Lin took the prescription and watched it carefully.
After being immersed in it for an unknown amount of time, he heard the low sound of the copper bell placed in the corner of the room. His expression changed, and he immediately stood up and went to the window, opened the window a crack, and looked at me with a sinking face. Look outside.
It is midnight now.
Except for the sound of snowflakes flying in the sky mixed with the cold wind, the city was silent.
Suddenly.
A red light appeared from a courtyard not far away.
Straight to the sky!
The second, third, and tenth items follow.
In the blink of an eye, countless small lights appeared above the entire city.
Densely packed but orderly, rushing into the dark sky with no end in sight.
Such a spectacular sight, even the blizzard was driven away, but no monk in the city came out to check it out.
It was still quiet.
It lasted for nearly a quarter of an hour before these red lines slowly faded and disappeared.
The wind picked up again and the snowflakes drifted.
Chen Lin stood there for a while, then closed the window again and walked back to the table.
This scene has always existed since he traveled through time.
Every day at midnight, there will be such a scene.
The rest of the time it was business as usual.
After a month of investigation, he found that each of these red thin lines was actually connected to a person. He didn't know what they were doing specifically.
And the people connected by the thin wire seemed to have no feeling at all. He had asked many people indirectly, but they all looked baffled.
Even the original owner has no memory of this situation.
So he suspected that the people here, including the original owner, could not see this strange scene at all, just like they could not detect that they would always sneer and sneer.
The lack of knowledge made it impossible for him to speculate on the root cause, and with his current level of cultivation, it was impossible for him to have the ability to detect it.
What he can do is to quickly improve his cultivation to the middle stage of Qi training, so that he can have some ability to survive in the wild, and then escape.
(End of this chapter)