fifth form

Chapter 2288 Leaving the City
Zhang Xuezhou didn't spend long at the Yunyi Taoist Temple, and he returned to Zhang's house very quickly.

"How about it?"

Locked in the cellar, Li Shaojun waited almost until dawn before he saw Zhang Xuezhou appear.

"Cough, cough, cough!"

Zhang Xuezhou coughed and waved his hand, signaling Rong Tianding to put away the long bamboo pole.

"Dong, you are going to let me go. I have already said that I am not targeting you for no reason. I was really beaten to death. Only people like me can vent their grievances after being beaten to death. If it were someone else, there would be no possibility of this. It would be an unjust death... Hey, why are you spitting out blood?"

"Nothing, I just happened to run into Taoist Master Zhen Yuan and got slapped by him!"

"what?"

Li Shaojun was very dissatisfied with Zhang Xuezhou. After all, this guy brought trouble with him, and he never thought that he would die so easily.

If there had not been a third-party perspective after his death, Li Shaojun would not have known how he died.

Li Shaojun thought about Zhang Xuezhou, who was not even stabbed by the Yuchang sword, and looked at the blood flowing out of the corner of his mouth after he coughed, and the part of his clothes that was shattered on his chest. This was almost exactly the same as the situation when he was hit, except that Zhang Xuezhou vomited some blood this time, while Li Shaojun vomited to death at that time.

After a comparison, Li Shaojun felt that Zhang Xuezhou was once again on the same front with him, and all his previous resentment disappeared.

"Why is that Taoist still near my Taoist temple?" Li Shaojun asked anxiously, "Why does he have to kill me?"

"I asked Cai Ma... cough cough cough... she said you might know a secret that cannot be told," Zhang Xuezhou coughed.

"A secret that cannot be told?"

After Li Shaojun was pulled out of the cellar, his expression changed back and forth.

Zhang Xuezhou's words made Li Shaojun feel uneasy. After all, there were many secrets that he could not tell, and Li Shaojun had no idea which one he had violated.

"Did Cai Ma say anything else?" Li Shaojun asked anxiously, "This is the first time I've met Taoist Master Zhen Yuan in my life. I really don't know what made him want to kill me!"

"Which one?"

Zhang Xuezhou took a sip of water and spat out the fresh pig blood in his mouth. He just felt that Li Shaojun had too many secrets.

But after pretending like this, the conflict between him and Li Shaojun was gone.

"Master Zhenyuan has spent a lot of time in Chang'an City in recent years. You have also made a lot of money from the Empress Dowager. You should stay out of the spotlight for now!"

Now that the Empress Dowager has passed away, Li Shaojun will not be able to gain any advantage in Anle Palace. Instead, he will meet an evil spirit.

Zhang Xuezhou didn't understand the reason why Zhenyuan God took action. He covered his chest and signaled Li Shaojun to leave early and come back after Zhenyuan God left Chang'an City.

"What did Taoist Zhenyuan say when he hit you?" Li Shaojun thought for a while before asking.

"He said 'wrong number'!"

"Wrong number?"

Li Shaojun felt that Zhenyuan Shenjun's explanation after beating Zhang Xuezhou made him feel very cold.

On the one hand, what Zhen Yuan Shenjun said about "hitting the wrong target" meant that there was a clear target, and Li Shaojun felt that he, who was in Yunyi Taoist Temple, was the first to bear the brunt.

On the other hand, Zhenyuan Shenjun seemed to be too nonchalant about beating the wrong person. Killing a person was as easy as slaughtering a chicken or a duck, and there was no way he could reason with the other party at all.

In the eyes of such great monks in the realm of true self, human life is no different from weeds, and they do not care about laws and regulations.

After hearing what Zhang Xuezhou said, Li Shaojun thought it would be a good idea to leave early and hide away.

He didn't want any justice or reasons. If you couldn't afford to offend him, you could always avoid him. As for Anle Palace, let them do whatever they want.

If he didn't want to take advantage of the court, Li Shaojun felt that he was very free.

"It's a pity that I lost my Eight-Step Immortality Pill. I couldn't find the Empress Dowager's medicine gourd, and her Nine Dragon Cauldron is difficult to activate. I'm still short of almost half of the medicinal materials..." Even Cai Ma has gathered two sets of life-enhancing resources. Li Shaojun's goal of coming to Chang'an City has been nearly half achieved.

Some of this was a reward from Anle Palace, but more came from the banquets he attended.

Either he got the corresponding reward at the banquet, or he knew which family had the corresponding item and could seek it later. Li Shaojun's elixir had almost achieved half of his goal.

"Mr. Dong, you know I came to Chang'an City to get a copy of the Eight-Step Immortal Pill. Now that I'm leaving, I'm afraid I won't be able to get all the pills. Can you see if you can get one?"

Li Shaojun was thinking about his goal of coming to Chang'an City to obtain the top-level external elixir secret medicine, and he finally handed the matter over.

The refining of elixirs is no trivial matter. Li Shaojun knew that Zhang Xuezhou had the means to refine elixirs, but he also knew that Zhang Xuezhou was refining inner elixirs, which were completely different from outer elixirs.

Even if Zhang Xuezhou had gathered all the corresponding rare materials, it would not be easy for the other party to successfully refine it, and in the end he still had to ask Li Shaojun for help.

"Okay, do you have anything else to say?"

Zhang Xuezhou simply agreed.

With Zhenyuan Shenjun in charge of Anle Palace, if Anle Palace has the corresponding items, it won't be difficult for him to collect the materials for the Eight-Step Immortality Pill mentioned by Li Shaojun.

Although his realm cultivation had fallen into difficulties, Zhang Xuezhou was quite interested in this kind of elixir.

If there was a chance to get some pills, he would be happy to make some preparations so that he would not be short of them when needed for his practice.

"Fine cinnabar, lime sulfur, hufen, gallstones, realgar, orpiment, xu stone, and primordial water!"

After reading the ingredients of the external elixir written by Li Shaojun on the bamboo slips, as well as the related quality, origin, etc., Zhang Xuezhou's eyelids twitched slightly.

"Are you sure the pills made from this material can be taken?" Zhang Xuezhou asked doubtfully.

"I knew that those of you who refine inner elixirs would question outer elixirs," Li Shaojun said dissatisfiedly, "Inner elixir and outer elixir medicines are all originally innate ancestral qi. The outer elixir medicine is the ancestral qi that is hidden in the dantian when the body is born, but it has a time to occur outwards. That is, the ancestral qi that occurs outside is taken and returned to the inside. Therefore, although it is generated from the inside, it comes from the outside, so it is called outer elixir medicine. This medicine is not that it cannot be taken, but it can only be taken when it reaches a certain level!"

"It seems reasonable!"

"Look at me, I have never taken any external elixir since I started practicing." Li Shaojun said, "This Eight Steps to Immortality Pill can only enlighten your body when you enter a higher realm, thereby increasing the chances of success!"

“That sounds reasonable!”

Li Shaojun's external elixirs were mostly made from chemical substances, which had extremely high requirements for purity. This also led to Li Shaojun only being able to seek the imperial court's qualifications for large-scale refining.

Whether it is making magic weapons, forging weapons, or developing currency, many minerals are constantly consumed in the process, and some high-purity minerals are also produced, which can be used as the basic materials for high-standard external elixirs.

Zhang Xuezhou thought that Li Shaojun's Eight-Step Immortality Pill was just a mineral poison, but after thinking about it, Zhang Xuezhou felt that even someone like Li Shaojun would dare to eat it, and it was impossible for someone like him who possessed the poison-avoidance technique to kill himself by eating it, so he finally chose to agree.

"I have cinnabar, stone gall, and essence water right now. You try to gather the other five. Once we have them all, the chances of success in ascending to a higher level of cultivation will be increased by half in the future." Li Shaojun muttered in a low voice, "We should not be killed by a True Self Realm cultivator with a single slap."

"no problem!"

"You are good at refining inner elixirs, but it is not easy to refine outer elixirs," Li Shaojun reminded him, "It would be fine if the materials were wasted, but it would be a big problem if you made the wrong medicine and got sick. You must call me when you have everything. Let's find a top-level elixir furnace to make the elixir in one go, and then we can both run towards a better future!"

"to make!"

Zhang Xuezhou nodded and agreed readily.

If Zhang Xuezhou needs to find rare and precious herbs, it is very difficult for him to identify the ingredients, and there are many difficulties in finding similar things.

But if it involves minerals, it would be an easy task for Zhang Xuezhou.

The Han Dynasty's industrialization level was insufficient and its technological level was not high enough. The level of ore refining in the real world was not low, and these minerals were similar, so there was no difference between the two.

Not to mention the 90% purity that Li Shaojun believed in, even a purity of 999% can be easily obtained.

Zhang Xuezhou is not good at external alchemy, but he has enough materials and has enough room for error.

As long as Zhang Xuezhou continued to configure the laboratory, he became familiar with the process, and it was not difficult for him to refine a normal Eight-Step Immortality Pill.