Chapter 19 Alchemy, Item Refining, the Way of Formation
Seeing him smiled bitterly, the beggar was puzzled: "Son, what's wrong? What's the problem with the centipede spirit?"
Zhizi could understand Zuo Xiaoyou's mood at this time.◇↓◇↓ Xiao◇↓ said, sighing in his heart, gently holding his arm, and whispered: "Twenty years ago, my elder brother and I just came to the Western Regions, and we encountered a centipede spirit full of red and squirting poisonous fire. The centipede spirit was killed by me and Zuo together twenty years ago. I didn't expect it to be the murderer who killed the elder brother and Yan."
"Uh..." The beggar didn't know whether he should cry or laugh. Finally, he shook his head and smiled bitterly like Zuo Xiaoyou: "The centipede spirit ate Yan Chixia and Huli, and you killed the centipede spirit again. It was a cycle of nature, and the retribution was unhappy."
Zuo Xiaoyou sighed, threw a ingot of silver for the old farmer, and left here.
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On the way home on the horse, the beggar took off the gourd from his waist and drank a sip of wine, and asked, "Son, do you have any ideas?"
Zuo Xiaoyou turned his head and looked at him: "Why did Dad say this?"
"Looking at your heart, the fool can see it." The beggar sighed: "I am old, but my eyes are not blind yet. What are you thinking about? What can't you tell me?"
"I worry my dad." Zuo Xiaoyou apologized.
"Don't tell dad that these useless things." The beggar said, "What do you think?"
Zuo Xiaoyou pondered for a moment, and as the BMW under his crotch sniffed, he whispered: "I want to kill the old demon of Black Mountain."
"The Old Monster of Black Mountain?" The beggar thought for a moment: "The thief head of the underworld, Black Mountain?"
"Yes." Zuo Xiaoyou nodded and said, "Zhizi and I have already surpassed the Black Mountain Old Demon, so it is not difficult to kill him."
"It's not difficult." The beggar nodded: "It's just a bandit leader in the underworld, so it should be easy to pass it."
"Yes." Zuo Xiaoyou also thought so.
"When will you go?" asked the beggar, "Do you want your father to help?"
"It's just an old monster in the Black Mountains, it's not a problem for my father." Zuo Xiaoyou said, "There's no rush. I want to accompany you at home with Zhizi to spend a few years of purity and wait until it's almost done."
"It's up to you." Seeing Zuo Xiaoyou's eyebrows stretched, the beggar smiled, "I should enjoy my old age."
"Dad, how old are you?" This has always been what Zuo Xiaoyou wanted to know. The beggar never mentioned his age.
"What do you think?" the beggar smiled.
The beggar looked around fifty years old, and Zuo Xiaoyou had met him for sixty years. Over the past sixty years, the beggar's appearance and hair color had not changed at all, and time left no trace on him. Zuo Xiaoyou wondered if he had taken some elixir of immortality? Otherwise, how could there be no sign of aging?
"Dad should be over 100 years old!" Zuo Xiaoyou said.
"Yeah. It's almost the same." The beggar nodded.
"But dad doesn't look old at all." Zuo Xiaoyou said, "Dad, have you eaten something like the stamina pill? Are you still there? I'll give me some."
"Stupid brat." The beggar slapped on Zuo Xiaoyou's shoulder with a stick and scolded: "I don't have that kind of low-level thing."
"Low-level?" Tomoko was surprised. While rubbing Zuo Xiaoyou's shoulders, she said: "Zhouyan Dan is a high-end product. Why is it low-level in Dad's mouth? Dad, do you have something better?"
"Uh... nothing." The beggar laughed dryly, and saw Zuo Xiaoyou and Chiko staring at him directly, coughing twice: "I learned some alchemy, weapon refining and formation methods from the master. In what I learned, the surviving pill is indeed a low-level elixir, and you can make thousands of pills at will."
"Several thousand masts!" Tomoko exclaimed: "For food?"
"..." Zuo Xiaoyou thought this word sounded very familiar, and seemed to have heard it somewhere.
"Dad." Zuo Xiaoyou asked, "No matter what pills you have, what did you take to keep your face unchanged, right?"
"Absolutely." The beggar nodded.
"Then can you teach me the way of alchemy, weapon refining, and formation?" Zuo Xiaoyou asked.
The beggar looked at him, his eyes showing a hint of embarrassment.
"Just pretend I haven't said it!" Zuo Xiaoyou didn't want to make him embarrassed and exposed this topic.
The beggar was silent for a moment. He took out three jade slips from his waist bag and said, "The advanced ones cannot be passed on to you. You can take a look at these basic ones."
"fine?"
"It's okay." The beggar laughed and said, "It's just some superficial things. It's okay to fool mortals. It's useless to meet fellow practitioners with a little cultivation."
"Then thank you dad." Zuo Xiaoyou accepted it with confidence.
"How old is that dad?" Zuo Xiaoyou pulled back again.
"Are you still thinking about it?" The beggar had no choice but to say, "What do you care about my age?"
"I want to know how long my dad can live?" Zuo Xiaoyou said: "If it's not too long, I want to take care of you first, and then go to find the Black Mountain Old Demon. But if you have a long time... I can only make other arrangements."
"..." The beggar looked at him with a strange look and said with a smile: "Silly son, you are too honest. You are so honest that your father doesn't know whether to praise you or scold you?"
"I'm just telling the truth." Zuo Xiaoyou said: "Tsyko is a ghost. Life is infinite, and I have some adventures and a long life span. If there are not many accidents, I think Chiko and I should be able to support you in the old age and see you off. But this time cannot be too long. If you have such profound magic powers, if you can live for another three or five hundred years, then Chiko and I should have made plans early."
The beggar tsk twice and said, "If I were like Chiko, I would have an unlimited lifespan?"
"Then you can only send a white-haired person to a black-haired person."
“…”
The beggar was silent for a long time. Finally, he said quietly: "Let me think about it again."
Zuo Xiaoyou nodded and said something that made the beggar's nose sour: "In this world, you are the only relative left by Chiko and I. Dad, no matter what, we will take good care of you."
"Boy, why are you so stingy? I won't eat this set." The beggar rushed to the front without looking back.
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A few days later, Guobei County was in the house.
Zuo Xiaoyou and Tomoko were learning the superficial ways of alchemy, weapon refining and formation under the guidance of the beggar. But after learning it, they realized that even the most superficial things are quite difficult to learn.
There are too many things involved in this. Just laying the foundation requires 20 or 30 years. Zuo Xiaoyou is not bad, he is a top student, he studies seriously and has a high understanding. But Zhizi can't do it.
Although Tomoko is not stupid, her brain is not flexible enough. Moreover, there are many slanderous things in the ways of alchemy, weapon refining and formations. It basically depends on personal understanding. This aspect is not Tomoko's strength.
It’s okay to let her cut people with a knife, and it’s okay to let her do housework, but she can’t do anything to learn these complicated and brain-burning things. After three months of hard work, Tomoko let out a hysterical scream: “It’s so difficult! I won’t learn anymore!”
Then he picked up the machete and ran outside to play a set of sword techniques, killing more than a dozen green-skinned gangsters.
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Forty years, Zuo Xiaoyou learned the basics of alchemy, weapon refining and formations, and was able to flexibly use them. As the beggar said, these are really superficial and can only be used to fool mortals. If you encounter peers or demons who are a little good at Taoism, you will not be enough to see them.
Although it is a pity that you cannot continue to learn profound things, Zuo Xiaoyou is already very content. At least he has laid a solid foundation and will have the opportunity to learn more profound things in the future.
But just after he finished his studies, the beggar left a letter and disappeared.
The content of the letter is very short, only two sentences.
"Son, daughter-in-law, I'm going back to the mountain gate, don't come to me."
"Life well, don't worry about me, because I am also immortal."
Apart from these two sentences, the beggar left nothing. Zuo Xiaoyou and Chiko were sad for a few days, and they also thought it was time to kill the old demon in Black Mountain and go home.
Late at night, outside Lanruo Temple.
Zuo Xiaoyou held two pig-killing knives that had been sacrificed and refined into magic weapons in his hand and aimed at the void. As the space twisted, a space crack appeared.
The cold wind blew on Zuo Xiaoyou and Tomoko. Zuo Xiaoyou felt a cold feeling, but Tomoko took a breath with pleasure: "The air inside is so good."
"..." Zuo Xiaoyou said: "The gate of the underworld has been opened. We don't have much time, so we can fight quickly."
"I understand!" Tomoko held the mountain-cut machete in one hand, and the sharp gold aura poured into it, turning the originally silver mountain-cut machete into golden yellow.
"Walk!"
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Underworld, Montenegro.
The Black Mountain Old Demon is not a monster that cultivates spirits by jackals, tigers, leopards, or flowers, plants and trees, but a monster that transforms into a whole mountain. The whole Black Mountain is his body, and the name of the Black Mountain Old Demon comes from this.
The old demon of Heishan has been practicing Taoism for more than two thousand years. His strength is definitely not as good as the King of Yama in the underworld, nor is it even better than the judge. However, it is still fine to deal with the bull-headed and horse-faced face. In addition, Heishan is located in a remote place, and the old demon of Heishan also knows the importance of it. He knows what can take advantage of it and what cannot take advantage of it. As a result, what he does not affect the operation of the underworld, the king of Yama turned a blind eye and let him become a demon king on a small hill in the underworld.
The old demon in Heishan has hundreds of ghost soldiers, all of whom have been fierce for a hundred years. Relying on his strength, the old demon in Heishan went to the world to make trouble from time to time and caught some female demons for his entertainment. At that time, Nie Xiaoqian was the concubine prepared by the tree demon grandma to please the old demon in Heishan. However, because of Zuo Xiaoyou's insertion, the grandmother of the tree demon grandma had no time to marry Nie Xiaoqian out, Zuo Xiaoyou intercepted him.
The death of the tree demon grandma made the old demon a little angry, but Yan Chixia lived in seclusion in Lanruo Temple at that time. Yan Chixia's strength was not worse than that of the old demon in Heishan, so the old demon in Heishan did not dare to do anything to him. After a hundred years, the old demon in Heishan had long forgotten the grandma of the tree demon. She is still in the underworld and tortures the female ghost concubines around him every day. She enjoys this.
The Black Mountain Old Demon believes that such days will continue forever, but today, his good days are over. (To be continued.)
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