Chapter 044 Erysipelas
Sure enough, the old man glanced at Zhang Ling and said impatiently: "One star in fire attribute, one star in wood attribute, failed! Go back!"
Zhang Ling hurriedly said, "That's not like this... Can you listen to my explanation?"
He really wanted to say that it was not like this. My beast soul attribute was definitely more than one star. However, he still didn't say it in the end. There was no way, this matter was too much to do, and he couldn't say it for the time being.
As a person of two lives, Zhang Ling knew very well what he could say and what he could not say.
There are two things he absolutely cannot say.
The first one is that I crossed the earth.
The second is that I have ten beast souls.
Well, in fact, there is a third one, which is that all the attribute indexes of your beast soul are full of ten stars.
The old man said impatiently: "Go and go, don't hinder the people behind you!"
Sure enough, the crowd behind Zhang Ling immediately started to stir up.
Someone said in front of Zhang Ling without any concealment: "One-star beast soul, come and join in the fun!"
In fact, many of them have less than five stars in the fire attribute index. There are even fewer people with four stars in the wood attribute index. However, like Zhang Ling, they all chose to queue up without hesitation. Obviously, they are like Zhang Ling, trying to try their luck.
Perhaps, there is not a single one that meets the requirements. If you choose the best one, you may even choose yourself! You can’t be a mate, or even an apprentice? Otherwise, where can you find so many geniuses!
Besides, geniuses also need people to do the tricks! Are geniuses willing to do those dirty and tiring tasks?
Many practitioners who were sent out were begging hard. Some were still telling that they had an old mother of 180 years old and an eight-month-old child to win the sympathy of the two old men. Unfortunately, these two old men did not give any affection at all. No matter what you said, no matter how you cry, no matter how bright your tongue is, he was unmoved. In the end, you would have to leave in shame.
From the beginning of recruitment to now, a cultivator who meets the conditions has not appeared. It’s not that the cultivator in Wulin Town is not powerful, but the requirements for the Qiu Japanese silk are too high. While the fire attribute index is five stars, the wood attribute index is four stars. Such an attribute combination may not necessarily have one of the million beast souls! How big is Wulin Town? How could someone meet the conditions?
Seeing that everyone's pleading was ineffective, Zhang Ling was too lazy to say anything, so he could only retreat in a bad mood.
To be honest, he was not in a good mood. The purpose of his learning to refine alchemy was definitely not to get rich, but to save his mother.
No matter how skilled other alchemists are, they are not as good as mastering the alchemy skills themselves. Only by mastering the alchemy skills themselves can they prepare the most suitable elixirs according to their mother's condition.
More importantly, in the process of learning alchemy, the alchemist will master a lot of medical skills at the same time and have the ability to cure diseases and save lives. Alchemy and medical skills are originally complementary. This is very important for Zhang Ling. Now he really needs to master medical skills in person. Perhaps, one day, he suddenly found a prescription to treat his mother?
The Xia family itself also has an alchemy hall. The great elder of the alchemy hall is Xia Yue'e. Zhang Ling has a very good impression of her. She is a type that is more loved by younger disciples. However, to be fair, there are really no outstanding figures in the alchemy hall of the Xia family. Xia Yue'e herself is just a high-level alchemist, and she is not as good as the two old men in front of her, let alone other alchemists in Qiuriyusi.
Among the four major families of the empire, only the Qiu family is professionally elixir. This is the field they are best at. In this field, almost no one can compete with them head-on. Opening branches to small places like Wulin Town is more often not to make money, but to show the Qiu family's strength. The Qiu family wants to let the practitioners of the entire empire know that if they want to buy elixirs, Qiu Japanese silk is definitely the first choice.
From a professional perspective, becoming an apprentice of Qiuji Si is the most promising one. With all his attributes, he is a beast soul with a full ten-star value, he will definitely become a high-level alchemist soon. If he works hard enough, it should not be a problem to become a master-level alchemist.
However, now, Zhang Ling has no choice. Since he cannot become an apprentice of Qiu Japanese Silk, he has to go to the Alchemy Hall to try his luck. Not to mention the rest, I guess the basic alchemy knowledge of the Xia family can still provide. When you have the opportunity in the future, go to those professional alchemy institutions to learn alchemy. From the perspective of learning, the Qiu family is not the only choice.
Just as he was about to leave quickly, the old man next to him who had been closing his eyes and resting, suddenly opened his eyes and said gently: "Boy, does your beast soul still have one star of life attribute?"
Zhang Ling turned around, nodded, and said, "Yes."
The old man's face was very red, as if he had some strange disease.
Every time he speaks, he seems to have to hold it in for a long time, as if he needs to accumulate a lot of strength, otherwise he will not be able to speak out.
Zhang Ling estimated that this old man with red face probably absorbed too many elixirs while refining elixirs, which led to his poisoning. I don’t know why these elixirs have not been completely resolved, and they turned out to be what they are now.
Alchemists are certainly incredible and admired by thousands of people. An extremely wise alchemist can even determine the fate of a country and a large force. All wise alchemists will be shrouded in countless halos. However, who knows the bitterness and price behind alchemists?
The so-called medicine is three parts poisonous. Almost all medicinal materials have side effects. Even if the side effects are not obvious, it will be very scary over time. The better the elixir, the more medicinal materials you need to use, and the stronger the medicinal properties are. Among them, many medicinal materials are toxic. To eliminate these toxicities, alchemists must be very careful. Otherwise, they will cause themselves to be poisoned.
However, exceptions always occur. When dealing with medicinal materials, it is impossible to never have any accidents. Especially in the process of learning and exploration, there are always risks in the treatment of unknown medicinal materials. Once poisoned, it is difficult to rescue. Over time, the toxicity accumulated in the alchemist's body will become more and more complex, and it will become more and more difficult to clean up.
Unless you no longer have to touch medicinal materials and no longer practice alchemy from now on, you can completely remove them.
However, for alchemists, stopping alchemy means giving up their pursuit and giving up their career as an alchemist. This is something that no one can bear. If an alchemist does not refine alchemist, can he still be called an alchemist? Does an alchemist who does not refine alchemist still have power to need? Therefore, most alchemists, even if they are deeply poisoned, will continue to refine alchemist.
Naturally, the toxicity in the body is getting worse and worse, which will eventually destroy the alchemist's body. It looks like the old man with red face. The elixir is exposed only with a slight elixir reaction. If it is a severe elixir reaction, he is already terminally ill and dying.
The toxicity contained in medicinal materials itself is actually relatively easy to deal with. There are generally ways to detoxify individual toxicities. The most serious thing is the unknown complex toxicity. But the alchemist has the most contact with these uncertain complex toxicities.
During the process of alchemy, different medicinal materials will also produce a lot of toxicity. It is like different chemicals that are not poisonous themselves. As a result, they will produce chemical reactions and produce highly toxicity. This poison is the most powerful erysipelas.
Its toxicity is generally difficult to estimate. Different pills have different pills. If the alchemist's cultivation level is not high and cannot be resolved, the more pills it accumulates, it will eventually seriously damage the alchemist's body.
The old man blushed looked at Zhang Ling for a while before slowly saying, "What a pity."
Zhang Ling said unwillingly: "Why is it a pity?"
I haven't started learning to refine elixir yet, why did this old man say that he is a pity?
The old man blushed said, "The nature of life is very rare. If the animal soul of an alchemist has the nature of life, it can add a glimmer of life into the elixir to greatly improve the efficacy of the medicine. Vitality and the elixir without life are different. If you want to become a master-level alchemist, the animal soul must have the nature of life. Unfortunately, your wood attributes and fire attributes are too low. Even if you have the nature attributes, it is a waste!"
Zhang Ling couldn't help but say, "Master, don't I have a first-line opportunity?"
The old man blushed was silent for a moment, as if he had remembered some old past events, and slowly said, "Well, I'll give you a chance."
He took out a simple wooden box from the back and sent it to Zhang Ling, and slowly said, "There is a prescription in it, which is about the Ice Spirit Pill. There are also a detailed steps for refining medicine. There are five spare medicinal materials. You can understand it yourself. Three days later, you hand over the sample of the elixir here. If I think it's okay, maybe I can make an exception and give you a vacancies for a mail."
Zhang Ling hurriedly took the box and said sincerely: "Thank you, senior."
As long as he has the opportunity to use his beast soul advantages, he can be sure to be qualified to enter Qiuji Silk.
Not to mention the other attributes, the ten-star birth attribute alone will definitely attract the attention of the wise alchemist. Zhang Ling has enough reason to believe that Qiu Japanese Silk's cleverness should attach great importance to this wise attribute.
Chapter completed!