Chapter 4: Fasting Pill

In Lingyao Peak, the Medicine Garden is undoubtedly one of the most important places, and dozens of disciples with internal strength above the eighth level are stationed here at any time.

When they arrived at the medicine garden, a blue robe disciple immediately came up to him.

The man's eyes turned on them and immediately said in a calm voice: "Senior He, please stay."

He Wude smiled slightly and said, "Yiming, take out the master's token."

He Yiming flipped his wrist and threw the token given to Yao Taoist.

The blue-robed disciple who had reached the ninth level of internal strength took it. After a closer look, he immediately showed a very respectful look on his face. He bowed deeply and said, "It turned out to be the order of the ancestor, please do you two."

He half-beared, made way, and invited them in respectfully.

Although He Wude has been re-acquisitioned by Yao Taoist and has recognized He Yiming's identity as an elder, this matter has not spread yet, otherwise they would not need any tokens to enter the Medicine Garden.

When He Yiming came to the medicine garden, the scenery he saw brightened his eyes.

The medicine garden is weaving cotton, the embankment is covered with grass, the orioles are singing and swallows are singing, butterflies are busy, and the scenery is very beautiful, which is very different from what he had thought before.

He Wude, who was beside him, sighed and said, "I haven't stepped into this place for more than 40 years. There seems to be no change. It seems like a flash of time."

He has lived on Lingyao Peak for forty years, and his familiarity with this medicine garden is no different from his own home.

Many precious plants in the medicine garden often have thousands of years, or even thousands of years of history. For these plants, the only decades when He Wude left Lingyao Peak was almost in a blink of an eye. Therefore, when He Wude entered the medicine garden, he did not show any strangeness, but instead felt deeply moved by it.

He Yiming's eyes turned, and more than ten people were walking carefully in the medicine garden. Although He Yiming didn't understand what they were doing, he knew that they were the disciples who cherished plants in the garden.

Among these people, most of them are disciples of Lingyao Peak between the ages of thirty and fifty, but several of them are similar to He Wude.

Their entry immediately attracted everyone's attention, and the two elderly people even greeted He Wude. When they learned that He Wude had officially returned to the door wall, they all smiled and congratulated each other.

When these people learned that He Wude and the others came to the Medicine Garden, they were ordered by the Yaodaoist to come here to learn about flowers, herbs and medicinal materials, all of them looked surprised, but they were just confused about it, but no one doubted anything.

He Wude did not tell the story of He Yiming becoming a congenital elder of the Hengshan lineage. After all, He Yiming is his grandson. If he says it out of his mouth, it will inevitably leave a bad impression. Anyway, He Wujin is also an insider. In a few days, everyone will probably know the entire Lingyao Peak.

Under the leadership of the old man, He Yiming began to study in the medicine garden.

The token given by Yao Taoist is itself a representative of the elder of the Hengshan lineage. With this token in hand, the entire Hengshan Mountain is absolutely unobstructed. However, He Yiming's current interests are all focused on alchemy, so he either hangs around in the Medicine Garden or spends his time in Yao Taoist's library every day.

The various rare medicinal materials in the medicine garden opened his eyes and learned how to cultivate medicinal materials, and a lot of practical content about what each rare drug should pay attention to.

Under He Wude's special guidance, he even took the initiative to cultivate several special medicinal materials for deworming, inoculation, etc.

In addition, there are countless books in the library. However, what surprised He Yiming was that the books here were all related to medical skills. He immediately understood that the collection of books on martial arts in the Hengshan lineage was not above the Lingyao Peak.

There are also several disciples in the library responsible for cleaning and guarding. Every time they see He Yiming, they are full of respect and obedience. Even if they see Yao Taoist, it is not the case.

It was not until this moment that He Yiming understood why Yao Taoist wanted He Wude to teach him these most basic lessons.

Because his identity was already promoted in He Wujin's mouth, the children of Lingyao Peak who were responsible for guarding and taking care of the medicine garden suddenly changed their attitude towards him by 180 degrees.

In front of him, everyone began to become timid and respectful. Under this attitude, even if He Yiming wanted to ask for advice, he would feel very awkward. Only Mr. He Wude, no matter how his identity changed, he had the same attitude towards him.

Only in this case can he learn some real knowledge smoothly.

After a whole month like this, He Yiming finally memorized countless knowledge about medicinal materials.

The more he learned, the more he discovered that this knowledge was profound. In contrast, it was almost not under the martial arts path.

At this point, he thought of Xie Zhien from the Xie family and was secretly alert. Although he had to learn some alchemy, he could not devote all his energy to it. If the practice of martial arts is delayed, then Xie Zhien's previous lessons are in front of him.

On this day, he completed his practice with Yuan Lixun. Now Yuan Lixun has also benefited from him and was given a golden elixir by Yao Taoist. When he was practicing internal energy, he made progress and was even no longer as fast as He Yiming's cultivation speed back then.

He Yiming was naturally very satisfied with her cultivation. After practicing, he left the room and walked towards the top of the mountain just like usual.

However, as soon as he left the courtyard, he saw He Wude walk out of his room and waved: "Yiming, follow me to the alchemy cave."

He Yiming said, "Grandpa, won't go to the medicine garden today?"

He Wude laughed and said, "You have already known the medicines in the medicine garden almost all the time. You can also understand the basic forages. From today on, you can enter the alchemy cave to observe the process of alchemy refining."

He Yiming frowned slightly and said, "Will this be a little too fast?"

He Wude shook his head and said, "For others, there is no basic practice for one or two years. Not to mention entering the alchemy cave, even ordinary alchemy rooms outside the cave can't be entered, but you are different. As an elder of this sect, there is still this privilege."

He Yiming smiled bitterly and said, "Grandpa, I don't mean that." He said seriously, "The way of medicine is profound and profound. I have only learned the basic knowledge for a month and don't know much. It would be too impatient to start practicing alchemy at this time. You should know that medicine is like martial arts. Without a solid foundation, it is also difficult to achieve higher achievements."

He Wude nodded with relief, and was full of joy for his grandson's knowledge.

However, he smiled for a moment, shook his head slightly, and said regretfully: "Yiming, I understand your thoughts, but..." He hesitated for a moment and finally said: "Tell you the truth, Yiming, in fact, no matter how hard you try, your achievements in alchemy cannot be too great. So according to my opinion, it is better to get in touch with the way of alchemy as soon as possible. After understanding these processes, you should devote your energy to martial arts."

He Yiming was slightly shocked and asked, "Grandpa, why did you say that?"

He Wude said seriously: "Alchemy is like martial arts. The most critical factor is not to work hard, but talent." He paused, clasped his fists and bowed slightly towards the Yaodaoist's cave, and said: "My master once said that if you want to achieve something in alchemy, it takes 99% of your efforts and one% of your talent and inspiration."

He Yiming blinked twice, believing that he had not heard it wrong, he said suspiciously: "Grandpa, didn't you say that the most critical factor is talent? How can you make efforts to occupy such a large proportion?"

He Wude coughed lightly and said, "I haven't finished it yet. The teacher said at the beginning, that is, although everyone can give their efforts and sweat, if they don't have that one percent talent and inspiration, then they will achieve nothing in the end."

He Yiming resisted the urge to roll his eyes. This Yao Taoist is really good at fooling people.

He Wude chuckled a few times and said, "If you want to achieve something on alchemy, it is not difficult for the innate master. But if you want to stand at the top of this path, you must be a practitioner of fellow practitioners of the Fire and Wood. Although you have an unimaginable talent for cultivation in martial arts, the Gold and Water System are even more samadhi. But alchemy..." He shook his head and sighed, "It's a pity, a pity!"

He Yiming laughed in silence and said it was strange that he achieved his innate achievements on the Fire and Wood System. However, in the subsequent enlightenment, he first understood the essence of wind, rain, clouds and mist. Because he practiced the thirty-six ways of opening up the mountain, he mastered the essence of the metal system in disguise. In this way, he seemed much inferior to the Fire and Wood System.

Shaking his head slightly, He Yiming said, "Okay, whatever you say is what you want, grandpa, let's go to the alchemy cave."

He Wude heard what he said was insincerely, and couldn't help but shake his head slightly, thinking that after Yiming suffered setbacks, he might change his mind and put most of his energy back on martial arts.

The two of them joined together and successfully entered the cave on the top of the mountain.

Logically speaking, He Yiming, a novice who has just been involved in alchemy and has not even had the identity of a medicine child, is not qualified to enter the cave.

But at this moment when they entered the cave and explained their purpose to Yao Taoist, the young-looking old man immediately waved his hand and pulled one of the five alchemy rooms to He Yiming for special purposes.

He Yiming was a little embarrassed at first, but after Yao Taoist's explanation, he felt relieved.

It turns out that the alchemy room in the cave uses the power of earth fire to refine alchemy. In addition to the innate power, even the acquired peak master of the tenth level of internal strength will not dare to stay in it for too long.

Therefore, although these alchemy rooms have a huge engineering project and the success rate of refining elixirs is far better than that of ordinary alchemy rooms outside, they have never been opened at the same time.

Yao Taoist placed one of them under He Yiming's name, but it was just a favor.

After entering the alchemy room, He Wude took out the materials he carried with him.

These materials are not expensive, but they are extremely complicated to collect. Especially the rare dew with hundreds of flavors are unlikely to appear in the outside world.

Every morning, there are fixed disciples in the medicine garden to collect the flower dew on rare herbs.

These flower dews are naturally not precious to the Spiritual Medicine Peak, but apart from this medicine garden far away from the mortal world, even the emperors on earth cannot be collected smoothly.

After all, it is impossible to find a medicine garden with thousands of years in the cities where countless people live together. And ordinary medicine gardens cannot have this unique geographical environment here.

In addition to these flower dews, He Yiming also saw some special herbs.

Most of these herbs are also cultivated in medicine gardens, but these herbs are not of great value. Many of them can be seen in Taicang County.

Of course, due to the different growth environment of the medicinal herbs, the quality of the medicinal herbs grown in the medicinal garden is naturally far from comparable to the medicinal herbs from the outside. Moreover, there is another special thing about these medicinal herbs, that is, the growth cycle is short, and it can be matured and harvested at most about three months.

When He Yiming was learning herbs, he was puzzled by the cultivation of these herbs in the medicine garden. In such a precious place, wouldn’t it be a waste to grow these ordinary herbs?

But now seeing the solemn expression on grandpa's face, he seemed to understand that these herbs do have their value.

"Yiming, what I want to refine today is the fasting pill, you're ready." He Wude said seriously.

He Yiming was slightly stunned. He was reading medicine books recently and was naturally not unfamiliar with this famous fasting pill.

It is said that after taking one pill, you can immediately not be hungry for a day and not thirsty for a day. However, the materials refined by this pill are difficult to collect, so they gradually disappeared from people's sight.

His eyes glanced at the flower dew and herbs, and he finally understood the truth in his heart.

These materials may not be precious, but apart from hidden sects like Hengshan, it is not easy to collect them all.

He Wude came to the alchemy furnace in the room. While explaining the steps of how to refine elixirs and why they should do this, he put some herbs and flower dew into the copper cauldron in a certain order.

Then, he opened the specially made pagoda below, and a red light suddenly spread through the cave.

Since only opening the first level of relationship, He Wude only narrowed his eyes, but it was not very uncomfortable, and He Yiming seemed to be unaware of it.

He Wude counted silently, constantly added a little flower dew, and then sighed: "If the master is here, he can use the power of fire and wood to sense the degree of cohesion between herbs and flower dew in the elixir furnace. Refining this elixir is simply a breeze for him. But for those of us who are not fellow practitioners of Fire and Wood, it would be extremely difficult to successfully refine the elixir."

He said, but his hands were not slow at all, and every half a stick of incense, he would carefully uncover the lid and carefully observe the situation inside. Looking at his solemn expression on his face, he clearly had no certainty of success.

He Yiming saw all the old man's steps, but when he was by the cauldron, he had long since slowly transported his true energy through the copper cauldron feet on the ground, and slowly exploring the changes inside.

After a long time, he finally understood why the top alchemist had to practice the Fire and Wood two-type martial arts.

The herbs in the alchemy furnace are all wood-based plants, so wood-based exercises can easily sense the vitality.

He Yiming could clearly sense that every time He Wude makes adjustments, the vitality in the medicinal materials will increase by one point, but if it is maintained in a certain link for too long, the vitality will undoubtedly be reduced a lot.

The stronger the vitality, the greater the possibility of becoming an elixir. On the contrary, if the vitality of the herbs is reduced to a certain level, then the elixir in this furnace is equivalent to being refined.

In addition to the vitality of the wood system, He Yiming can also clearly sense the power of the fire system.

In the copper cauldron, it is under the influence of the fire power that the medicinal properties of those herbs will change rapidly. If there is no such power, it will be extremely difficult to mix the medicinal properties of the herbs.

Gradually, He Yiming actually had some special insights into the cooperation between fire and wood, and his eyes gradually became brighter.

He Wude only dared to refine it at the lowest temperature, but He Yiming vaguely sensed that if the heat is opened to the maximum at certain stages, it can not only reduce the time, but also increase the activity level in the medicinal materials.

Of course, these are just a feeling, and he was not sure until he tried it.
To be continued...