Chapter 14
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“So what if this True Monarch mentions it? Can he Zhou Tong really cover the sky with one hand in the Qingxuan Sect?”
True Monarch Ziyang snorted coldly when he heard this, then flicked his sleeves and walked out. When he was about to return to the cave, he suddenly turned around and looked at the bronze mirror behind him and said, “The next scripture lecture is cancelled. This True Monarch is going to go into seclusion for three years this time.”
After saying this, his figure disappeared in a flash at the entrance of the cave.
“Why bother.”
A helpless sigh came from the bronze mirror.
……
Let’s go back to Green Bamboo Residence.
“Huff… still not working…”
Xu Taiping, who had been sitting on the bed practicing his skills for a long time, suddenly let out a long sigh.
After listening to the lecture of True Monarch Ziyang, the time was just noon, which was a good time to practice the ‘Canying Scripture’. Xu Taiping began to practice according to the insights he had gained today.
Unexpectedly, after working hard for a whole hour, he still couldn’t guide the spiritual energy of heaven and earth into his body and refine it into true qi according to the description in the ‘Canying Scripture’.
“It seems that I can only rely on that prescription of Fairy Lingyue.”
Xu Taiping wiped the sweat from his forehead and said reluctantly.
This attempt made him truly experience the difficulty of cultivating with the qualification of white bones.
Thinking of this, he who had already made up his mind took out the bronze mirror again and then put a merit coin on it.
“Xu Taiping of Green Bamboo Residence, what do you want to find me for？”
The voice of the mirror spirit rang out from the bronze mirror.
“Lord Xuanjing, I want to buy a batch of medicinal materials and seeds of herbs.”
Xu Taiping replied.
“Your current rank can only buy medicinal materials and seeds at the Hundred Herbs Hall at the foot of the mountain. These are the names of the herbs in the Hundred Herbs Hall. After you select them in the mirror, a spirit bird will deliver them to your courtyard.”
As the mirror spirit spoke, a list of herb names began to appear on the bronze mirror.
“Thank you, Lord Xuanjing.”
After Xu Taiping thanked, he began to look carefully.
It took the time of burning an incense stick for Xu Taiping to finally gather the medicinal materials on Fairy Lingyue’s prescription. In order not to let others see the prescription, he also added several not very valuable medicinal materials in it, and at the same time, he also did some tricks on the weight of the medicinal materials.
As for the medicinal material seeds of the medicine garden, he only chose the “Nine-leaf Perilla”, and bought an amount that could be planted three times for three mu of land.
There was a reason why he chose like this.
According to the record of the medicine garden planting in the jade slip of passing on skills, the leaves, stems and fruits of the nine-leaf perilla can all be used as medicine. The leaves can be eaten as first-class vegetables, and the price of the seeds is also the cheapest among all the spiritual medicine seeds. It is easy to grow, and the cycle from germination to fruiting is only three months. Yunlu Mountain has four seasons like spring in a year, and it is enough to plant three times.
The only shortcoming is that the selling price is too low.
Under normal circumstances, each mu of nine-leaf perilla can only be exchanged for thirty Qingxuan Sect merit coins every year, which is far lower than the income of other spiritual medicines.
You should know that in the Qingxuan Sect, each outer sect registered disciple needs to pay 120 merit coins every year.
Under normal circumstances, even if Taiping planted all three mu of medicine fields with nine-leaf perilla, he would eventually not be able to gather enough merit to be handed over to the sect.
But with the formation that Fairy Lingyue arranged in the medicine field, everything would be different.
According to Fairy Lingyue, the yield of the medicinal field where the small Gathering Spirit Array is arranged will triple within three years. Then it is the most cost-effective for him to plant the Nine-Leaf Perilla.
“If there are no accidents, after planting the Nine-Leaf Perilla in the three mu of medicinal fields for three seasons, it can be exchanged for at least 270 merit coins. Excluding the 20 merit coins for the cost and the 120 merit coins that need to be handed in every year, I can still have 130 left. When next year comes, I will be able to buy better medicinal seeds, and perhaps there will still be some left to buy cultivation techniques and talismans.”
After paying the bronze mirror, Xu Taiping picked up a pen and paper and seriously started to keep accounts.
“After buying the medicinal materials and seeds, there are only three merit coins left. Fortunately, there is already a vat of rice in the rice vat, and the oil and salt are also sufficient. Then go to the mountains to set up some traps and hunt some wild game. It should be able to support until the first season of the Nine-Leaf Perilla matures.”
He was keeping accounts while calculating in his heart.
One of the big reasons for choosing the Nine-Leaf Perilla as the seed is that it matures quickly, which allows him to quickly exchange it for merit within three months and thus exchange it for the medicinal materials needed for cultivation.
As for the True Fire Talisman required for burning the seeds, he asked the Mirror Spirit yesterday and got the answer that he can only buy items such as talismans after one year of entry. And even the most ordinary True Fire Talisman costs more than 1,000 merit coins. He simply can’t afford it in a short time.
“Well, after there is a harvest, I still have to consider saving money to buy the True Fire Talisman.”
Xu Taiping made another note in the account book.
……
The next evening.
A spiritual bird, a grey crane, stopped in front of Xu Taiping’s small courtyard with a large package in its mouth.
The seeds and medicinal materials that Xu Taiping bought finally all arrived.
After paying one merit coin to the grey crane with some heartache, Xu Taiping carried the medicinal materials and walked into his bedroom.
At this time, there was a bathtub full of hot water in his bedroom.
This was exactly what he had prepared in advance for soaking the medicine.
“The prescription given by Fairy Lingyue said that the materials of this medicinal formula are ordinary. To exert the medicinal effect, the medicinal materials must be put in according to the time and sequence stated in the prescription.”
After classifying and putting away the medicinal materials and reweighing them with the old scale in the house, Xu Taiping stood in front of the bathtub and secretly recalled the order and time of putting in the medicinal materials.
“There should be no problem.”
A moment later, Xu Taiping nodded secretly, as if cheering himself up.
Immediately after that, he picked up a portion of the medicinal materials placed on the oiled paper and poured them all into the steaming bathtub, and then began to count silently with his fingers： “8, 7, 6…”
When counting down to 1, Xu Taiping quickly poured the second portion of the medicinal materials on the table into the bathtub.
As the second portion of medicinal materials was poured in, the hot water in the bathtub suddenly began to bubble, and then emitted bursts of strange fragrance like orchid and musk.
“It seems I didn’t put it wrong.”
Xu Taiping had a look of joy on his face, and then poured in another packet of medicinal materials.
……
After the time it takes to burn an incense stick.
When all the medicinal materials had been poured into the bathtub according to the instructions on the prescription, Xu Taiping saw that the originally clear hot water in the bathtub had now turned into a thick white slurry.
“The color of the medicinal soup is as white as jade and as thick as slurry, just like what is said in the prescription.”
Xu Taiping let out a sigh of relief.
At least from the appearance, the bone-washing and marrow-cleansing soup he prepared was successful.
Immediately, Xu Taiping quickly took off his clothes, revealing his lean body, and nakedly turned over and soaked into the bone-washing and marrow-cleansing soup.
“Tut tut tut…”
Perhaps it was because of the medicinal power. Even after the time it takes to burn an incense stick, the medicinal soup in the bathtub was still very hot, and Xu Taiping was so hot that he couldn’t help but grin.
If it weren’t for the fact that the prescription instructions stated that once he left in the middle, the medicinal effect would be greatly reduced, he might have already jumped out of the bathtub by now.
