Chapter 45: Solid Essence
Chapter 45: Solid Essence
"Silver Ring Semen-Securing Pills."
Xu Qing looked at the prescription carefully. The medicinal materials such as Astragalus membranaceus, Euryale ferox, Lotus stamens, oysters, lotus seeds, etc. are all common ones. The only main ingredient - "Golden Ring Snake" - is very difficult to find.
But the letter also mentioned that the Bungarus multicinctus is a specialty of the Qixia Mountain outside the city. Because it has the effect of strengthening yang and tonifying the kidneys, it is often hunted, which makes it very difficult to find nowadays.
If you want to buy it, you can buy processed coral snakes in the pharmacy, but the effect is definitely not as good as freshly caught ones, and the taste is much worse.
And the price is very expensive.
"The price is not a problem. Let's see how effective the coral snake prepared in the pharmacy is." Xu Qing had already sold the house deed left by Mr. Xu to a local gentry named Zhang.
In Tianjing City, no matter how small the yard is, it is in great demand.
Xu Qing simply sold it at the market price.
As for the transfer of ownership, if you have the title deed and find connections, you can naturally transfer the ownership.
What's more, that gentry also knew that the Songzhou Xu family now had only one juren, and the Zhang family also had a second-class jinshi of the current dynasty who was serving as a Hanlin, so of course they were not afraid that the Xu family would cause trouble later.
In this way, Xu Qing also avoided any pitfalls in the house.
Anyway, he has the money, so he doesn't need to live there. Even if there are scams, he can't be cheated.
However, Zhou felt a little pained about Xu Qing's selling of the house. After all, people in the imperial court were obsessed with houses and land.
Many people spend their whole lives doing these two things.
Xu Qing felt that it was worth selling it for money.
He now has to spend all his resources on himself.
This is also the benefit of him winning the small three prizes.
If he did not have this honor, the Xu family of Songzhou would never have tried to murder and use him.
Naturally, he couldn't get the benefits he has now.
Most of the wealth in the world is in Southern Zhili, and each prefecture in Southern Zhili, in terms of money and grain economy, even earns more than half of some remote provinces.
Xu Qing bought the prepared silver ring snake directly from the pharmacy in the city. The price was indeed expensive, costing ten taels of silver, and the quantity was only enough for him to prepare two doses of medicine.
As for the other ingredients of Yinhuan Gujing Pills, Xu Qing bought them as well.
Making pills is not difficult, it just tests your hands and eyes.
Xu Qing practiced the Crane Posture for a long time and also learned the Bagua Wandering Palm, so he is certainly strong in this area.
Moreover, making pills is also a part of practicing Bagua Youshen Palm.
Because the process of rubbing the pills by hand requires the use of the Taoist conception of alchemy to cultivate the palm power of Bagua Youshen Palm. The denser the pills are, the heavier they are like lead and mercury, and the better the efficacy is, and it also shows that the power of Bagua Youshen Palm is also deepening.
Medicine and martial arts are inseparable. Even the process of making medicine is part of martial arts practice.
Xu Qing looked at his first finished product. It really looked like the real thing, but he didn't know how effective it would be.
He first scraped off a layer of powder from the pill, tasted it carefully, and observed the changes in his luck. The remaining trace of black energy did not increase.
It seems that nothing is wrong.
Just a little bit of powder, no discernible effect.
Xu Qing tried little by little, but in the end, his luck did not change.
However, after taking a whole pill, he finally felt a burning heat in his stomach.
He knew that this was essence, and immediately used "Crane's Cry" to refine it into his spine. As expected, he could feel a slight increase in energy and blood.
"Try taking a whole one."
Xu Qing continued to try.
As expected, after swallowing the whole pill, the effect of the drug almost doubled, which was equivalent to what he had accumulated in the past two days.
But his progress is very slow now. After two days of accumulation, the progress is not obvious.
Now there are about ten pills of raw materials left. Because of his powerful spirit and coordinated hands and eyes, he is really talented in refining pills. Anyway, he can succeed in one try, but the quality is really poor at the beginning.
After practicing for the tenth time, he finally produced a pill that Xu Qing was slightly satisfied with.
The black pill has a deep metallic luster.
This pill is at least twice as effective as the previous one.
This is almost the limit of what Xu Qing can refine today.
Now he felt hot.
Fortunately, now at night, the old phoenix tree absorbs the moonlight.
Xu Qing stood on a large water tank and practiced the Bagua Youshen Palm to release his excess energy. At the same time, he used the "Crane's Cry" and the moonlight from the old phoenix tree to neutralize the heat in his body. After a long time, Xu Qing jumped into the water tank.
There was ice-cold well water inside, the chill penetrated into the body and completely cooled it down.
Of course, if he wasn’t in good health, he would have probably caught a cold.
Xu Qing returned to the house, quickly dried his body, changed his clothes, and washed his original clothes with soap.
Xu Qing felt the effect of the pills and went to the pharmacy to buy another coral snake the next day.
"Xu Sanyuan, these are all we have left in the shop."
Xu Qing looked at the remaining prepared coral snake and felt somewhat disappointed.
This is only enough to make twenty pills.
And the quality is worse than yesterday's.
He went to other medicine shops and only found three, which together only had the amount of 60 pills. And considering that the effect of the medicine would weaken as the Bagua Youshen Palm improved, this amount was definitely not enough for him to practice Bagua Youshen Palm to perfection.
"If Xu Sanyuan still wants to buy processed silver ring snakes, he can go to Tianjing City. The supply there is more sufficient." suggested the owner of a drug store.
At the same time, he sighed that the good thing about a young body is that it can withstand the medicinal effects of the coral reef snake.
I just haven’t heard that Xu Sanyuan has been to a fireworks place, so I wonder who his lover is?
Xu Qing certainly wouldn't leave his nest at this time. Who knows what dangers are waiting for him outside.
The gentleman does not stand under the wall.
He asked the owner of the drugstore to help him keep an eye out for the coral reef snakes. If there were any new arrivals, they could be sent directly to Li's house and he could offer a higher price.
Later Xu Qing went home. On the way, he became alert and saw a sturdy man in a gray robe staring at him on the street. When his sight moved away, the man quickly disappeared in the crowd.
At a glance, Xu Qing saw the other person's bulging temple.
"He's a martial artist."
Xu Qing's body is still developing, so the bulge in his temples is not very obvious.
Moreover, his spine has just developed to the level of an adult man.
There is no other way, practicing martial arts also has to follow the laws of nature.
His body has not fully developed, so much of his energy must be used to supply his own development in a limited way. Otherwise, it would be easy for him to break down his body and consume his potential.
At this time, Guo Zhuang and Mi Qiang hurriedly found Xu Qing.
"Sir, the Xu family has hired a gangster master to rescue Mr. Xu. This man is now living in the Zhao family." Guo Zhuang reported the news he had just learned to Xu Qing.
This is also the information that Mi Qiang, the current salt dealer overlord in the fish market, got from the salt dealers.
These guys tend to have more information.
"It looks like that guy from before." Xu Qing nodded and thought to himself.
He had never fought with a real martial arts master, so he had no idea how powerful this so-called underworld master was.
"Let's go to Zhao's house at night to find out what's going on." Xu Qing made a decision secretly.
(End of this chapter)