I pushed the folding umbrella cart into the kitchen, while the Doctor Torino was lying in the umbrella cart and said to me: "So, as usual, I will first demonstrate the preliminary preparation of the reversal medicine."

After saying that, there seemed to be an invisible brush next to the umbrella cart and suddenly brushed the air, and a ghost-like figure appeared, which was the spirit body summoned by Doctor Torino.

The spirit came to the stove quietly, took out the soup pot with ease, added water to it, and then turned the knob of the stove to light it.

After the water boiled, under the command of the Turin doctor, it took out the sack after the medicine and took out the ingredients for the elixir after the medicine in advance. Then, in time and order, it put one by one into the soup pot. Some of them looked like animal and plant medicinal materials, some looked like metal minerals, and some were trivial matters that I didn’t know how to talk about.

In some people's imagination, the preparation of spiritual medicines is either a huge crucible and mixing stick like an ancient wizard, or a precise glass equipment like a chemical experiment, at least not as down-to-earth as it is now.

But in fact, the methods of preparing elixirs are ever-changing.

Some elixirs will require the pharmacist to carry it and successfully climb a mountain before they are willing to turn into finished products. Some elixirs will require the pharmacist to sew all the materials under the skin. After a certain period of time, they will automatically gather and form. Some elixirs will even require mature women to eat all the materials into their stomachs, and then let the women give birth to themselves in the form of pregnancy. This is the completion.

In contrast, there is not so much "strange temper" in the reversal medicine. Just prepare the "container" and "flame". The "container" can be a glass measuring cup, or a soup pot. The "flame" can come from an alcohol lamp or a gas stove.

"After a little while like this, then put the palm tree currency in it," she reminded.

"I've wanted to ask before," I said, "How long does it take in a short while?"

"A little while is a little while."

"It's really not accurate to seconds?"

"cannot."

"So, how did you grasp the time?" This is not my first time asking, "Is there any trick here?"

"By intuition," she asserted, "I feel it's OK, that means it's OK."

This is why I have been unable to learn elixir since I was a long time ago. It is not just because of the strange preparation methods.

I couldn't help but recall my experience of self-taught home dishes in my previous life. At that time, I was often confused by ambiguous quantifiers such as "appropriate amount", "a little", "a tablespoon" on the recipe. Adding the right amount of water, how much water is? Adding a little salt, how much is a little? Adding a tablespoon of oil, how big is this tablespoon? I wish I could catch the author of the recipe and force them to accurately calculate the calculation units to gram. Later, I gradually became familiar with it, and I was no longer confused by similar quantifiers.

The problems I face now seem similar, but in fact they are different. The reason why the recipes in my hometown use ambiguous quantifiers is based on the objective fact that "it is difficult to adjust" and the subjective choice of "avoiding controversy". If there are occasions that require precision, it is not impossible to be precise. However, the ambiguity of Lingyao is truly ambiguous.

This science is filled with a lot of mysticism and transcendentalism. Compared with matter, it attaches more importance to the mind than image, and pays more attention to abstraction. What is even more absurd is that this concept seems to be effective in this universe where supernatural powers exist.

As for the intuition she mentioned, it is also completely different from the intuition I understand. The intuition I understand is "the ability of human subconscious to process external information", which seems incredible, but can be interpreted by science for the time being. The intuition she mentioned is not tolerated with science, and is a mysterious experience based on mysticism.

If you want to truly enter the process of formulating elixirs, you sometimes have to abandon rationality and calculation. This is too different from my inherent concept. If you try to become a true elixir scholar, you must even start to transform your own values, worldview and other concepts. Although I do not want to become a elixir scholar, but just practice one of the recipes, it is not that simple.

"I don't have glass measuring cups and alcohol lamps here, but using those equipment will not help you find your feelings," she said. "But I use those equipment more myself."

"What will be used to prepare elixirs?"

"No, it was used when preparing ordinary medicines. I used to practice medicine everywhere, and the treatment targets were basically ordinary people, and I rarely used spiritual medicines." She shook her head and said, "Well, the money from the palm tree should be put in here."

As soon as she finished speaking, her spirit body put a green stone the size of a thumb into the soup pot.

This is the "currency of palm trees". According to my knowledge, this is the palm trees growing in the dark, and in order to purchase more sunlight to the palm trees growing in the light, it is necessary to initiate exchanges. And here is one of the auxiliary materials for reversing medicines. Although it is not as precious as the "earthworm's eyeball", just listening to the description, you can tell that this is the same as the "earthworm's eyeball" and is "a material that cannot exist in the real world".

The source of these materials is "dream".

Just like I can bring out the anti-psychic short sword from my dream, some people can bring out some materials that are absolutely impossible to be born from my dream. These materials are the basis of spiritual medicine, and spiritual medicine and dreams are inseparable concepts. This is also the reason why Doctor Torino is both a spiritual medicine scholar and a dream technician.

After a while, Doctor Torino completed the demonstration and it was my turn.

I tried to put the materials intuition like her, but failed repeatedly. The materials in the pot either did not dissolve normally in boiling water, or the color of the water did not change normally.

"Is it because I was too slow to inspire?" I asked her.

She shook her head, "Although strong inspiration will help prepare elixirs, there is actually no saying that if you are slow inspiration, you will definitely fail."

Having said that, I kept failing the next few times.

"It's okay." She whispered, "It's going to be better next time."

I decided to give it a try again.

After failing several times, I began to think about other solutions. I wonder if it would be better to change the flame from "gas stove flame" to "psychic flame"?

A few days ago, Xu Shengxing bought flame gloves from me in the name of giving away self-defense supplies. In other words, I can use psychic flames now. But if I take out flame gloves as a faceless person, it would be a bit inappropriate.

Doctor Torino faced me and pondered: "Maybe it's a matter of concept."

"I really can't match the idea of ​​preparing elixirs." I admitted.

"I have another idea here, I don't know if it can help you." She thought for a while, "Although I think this idea is a bit problematic, it is very popular among other spiritual medicine scholars, and it is indeed beneficial for formulating spiritual medicine. You can use it as a reference."

"Please tell me." I nodded.

She said slowly: "You might as well imagine this: this world is actually a dream for you."

I asked back: "Dream?"

“All the external things you see come from the reflection of your inner mind,” she explained. “All matter, animals, plants, others, and even yourself are not real matter, but metaphors of your mind to you. You are part of the world, but the world is also part of you.”

"Just accept this concept, can you improve your success rate?"

"There is no need to accept it seriously. Just press the switch, just switch it temporarily when preparing the elixir." She suggested.

I began to try this. Slowly, I remembered the metaphorical world of gears that I saw when I was entering the field of "turning zero into whole". I felt like I had grasped the trick.

I trained very late. After late at night, I finally succeeded once.

Doctor Torino also relaxed and said with a smile: "As long as you can succeed once, you will accumulate it afterwards."

Although this is only the early preparation link, since it can be successful, it means that I am not talented in preparing spiritual medicines. For this reason, I also breathed a sigh of relief.

I helped the Doctor Torino, pushed her umbrella cart into the bedroom, and then put her on the bed. According to the past practice, it is now time for me to read her story books.

But this time, she made a strange request.

"Can you open the drawer next to it and read the book that is placed inside for me?"

Hearing this, I opened the drawer of the bedside table and found a booklet inside. The cover of the booklet looked quite old, the corners were ragged, the paper inside was yellow, and there were all faded handwritten words. It was about thirty or forty years ago, and the handwriting looked like an adult male. The content of the story was not very good. No matter how you look at it, they were used to coax the little girl, which looked innocent and childish.

Perhaps it is her father's relics, I can't help but think so.

"Is it OK to read from scratch?" I asked.

"Yes," she said.

I turned to the first page and started to read it gently. She listened quite quietly, unlike before, and would ask me the details of the story from time to time.

After a while, her breathing gradually became even.

Although her eyes were covered in black cloth and it was difficult to tell, she should have fallen asleep.

I closed the storybook, quietly put it back into the drawer, and then got up and walked towards the exit. However, the lubrication of the door shaft seemed to be unsatisfied, and a subtle movement was made when I opened the door. I looked back at her reflexively, but this time she was not awakened. The first time I saw her sleeping so well.
Chapter completed!