fifth form

Chapter 2558 Coincidence
Before practicing the art of movement, the relationship between Zhang Xuezhou and Dong Zhongshu was very pure.

But after revealing each other's secrets, the two became grasshoppers tied to the same rope.

The difference is that Zhang Xuezhou was in Chang'an City and charged in the front, while Dong Zhongshu was in the back, planning in Jiangdu.

This also makes the division of labor between the two people different.

Dong Zhongshu even needed Zhang Xuezhou to act as a go-between when he learned about the white meat from the Huainan Palace.

"It's incredible that ordinary people can eat gypsum ore. Normal consumption of this ore will cause abdominal stones and illness," Zhang Xuezhou complained while holding a stone.

"Ordinary people can also eat salt ore," Dong Zhongshu reminded.

"That's different!"

“It’s the same thing!”

Zhang Xuezhou was about to deny Dong Zhongshu. After all, adding gypsum water after grinding the beans was almost like adding external elixir minerals when refining internal elixir, and it turned out to be a top-notch elixir. This seemed like an impossible situation.

But when Dong Zhongshu mentioned that ordinary people eat salt, Zhang Xuezhou came back to his senses when he was about to refute.

The method of integrating internal and external alchemy appeared a long, long time ago.

If cooking ingredients is considered as a method of refining the inner elixir, adding salt is to contaminate the minerals in the outer elixir materials. In theory, there is really no difference.

However, this kind of situation is extremely rare, and it is a miracle that it can spread on a large scale.

White meat is probably the second food that integrates internal and external elixirs after salt. This does not appear even in the Red Alliance countries where food is not scarce.

For the white meat to make the Huainan Palace sharpen their knives, it must have undergone various tests to confirm the safety and efficacy of the food.

"You should have done this earlier..."

Dong Zhongshu was just about to tell Zhang Xuezhou to take action earlier to prevent the court from being too passive in the future when he heard the sound of wind and waves, which made Dong Zhongshu quickly shut his mouth.

"The one with the surname Dong!"

Li Shaojun jumped into the house from the roof and heard shouting, which forced Zhang Xuezhou to open the window.

"Has Taoist Master Zhenyuan left?"

Seeing the shadow cast by the light in the study, Li Shaojun asked very cautiously.

"Let's go, let's go," Zhang Xuezhou waved his hand.

"That old bastard has finally left," Li Shaojun breathed a sigh of relief and said, "I have been living in fear these days, not a single day has been happy!"

"You took advantage of others and yet you still look down on them. You won't complain even if you are beaten to death!"

"How could I get any advantage? It was just a chaotic fight, and no one from the Immortal Court saw a single one!"

Li Shaojun complained repeatedly.

His apparent advantage is that he is in the eyes of the Immortal Court, but if no one in the Immortal Court pays attention to him, Li Shaojun will only have the trouble of attracting hatred.

He lied about wanting to leave Chang'an City and go to the mountains to escape the disaster, but Li Shaojun really wanted to change his identity quickly to avoid being found.

He felt uneasy about the God Zhenyuan staying at Yunyi Taoist Temple, fearing that he would be discovered by him. Li Shaojun also felt uneasy about the lack of security after the God Zhenyuan left.

He walked around in the dark and ran to Zhang Xuezhou's house.

"this?"

"Master Dong Zhongshu!"

"this?"

"Master Li Shaojun!"

"I have admired you for a long time!"

"Nice to meet you!"

Li Shaojun complained a few words, and then took the initiative to push open the study door.

The expected situation of Rong Tianding in the study did not appear. Instead, he saw a gentle middle-aged man sitting in the study, which made him quickly stop complaining.

After some inquiries, Li Shaojun was no longer so casual. Dong Zhongshu also quietly put the gypsum ore into his sleeve and inadvertently covered his nose with his sleeve.

After Li Shaojun entered, the smell in the study became strange.

"I'm going to go to Brother Rong's place, you two can chat slowly!" Dong Zhongshu stood up first and was about to leave. Li Shaojun opened his mouth and touched the cloth bag tied around his waist.

"I'll give you half of these things, so that you won't say that I'm not gracious in the future. After I give them to you, I'll have settled the matter." Li Shaojun said as he put down the cloth bag.

"It stinks so much," Zhang Xuezhou complained.

"I never thought I would be vomited up. The filth is almost piled up to my head. It would be strange if the food I make doesn't stink under such circumstances!"

Li Shaojun complained indignantly, put down the cloth bag and sat down without entering the study, also wanting to leave.

"You wait for the future," Li Shaojun said, "As long as you help me stabilize it, I will give you half if I succeed!"

After actually refining the Eight-Step Immortality Pill, Li Shaojun also knew his success rate in refining the pill.

Although the new emperor had promised very well at the Yunyi Taoist Temple, Li Shaojun was also afraid that his repeated failures would cause dissatisfaction, and he would also need Zhang Xuezhou's cooperation in the follow-up.

He didn't try his luck at the moment and just wanted to try his luck in refining a furnace of elixirs that would help him enter the realm of self-centeredness.

If his cultivation level were improved a bit, it would be easy for Li Shaojun to refine the Eight-Step Immortality Pill.

Li Shaojun finished his private conversation quickly and did not want to stay in the study room which was beginning to smell like rotten eggs.

He brought the things and distributed them fairly. It was up to Zhang Xuezhou to decide how to deal with them. At least Li Shaojun would not want to take pills indiscriminately while he could still make pills in the future.

He finished speaking while blocking the door, and left the study one step earlier than Dong Zhongshu.

"This person is quite capable!"

Li Shaojun came quickly in the night and left quickly as well.

Dong Zhongshu flicked his sleeves to sweep away the bad smell in the study, and watched Li Shaojun flash by in the night. He felt that Li Shaojun's flying skills were very high, and he looked like a troublesome character.

"He's just average," Zhang Xuezhou complained.

"Very impressive! There are no more than ten people in the Han Kingdom who have this flying skill. I have heard of Li Shaojun's name before, but I thought he was just pretending to be mysterious. I didn't expect that he really has the ability!"

Dong Zhongshu said this seriously, and Zhang Xuezhou was seen frantically searching for cloth and wooden boxes there.

"What the hell is this smelly thing? If you don't put it in a bag, you won't be able to isolate the odor," said Dong Zhongshu.

"This is an external elixir that failed to be refined. It is difficult to store using the wax sealing process of the internal elixir. He dislikes it and so do I, but this thing should be able to be used as a poison, so I have to keep it!"

Zhang Xuezhou looked at the Eight-Step Immortality Pills wrapped in a cloth bag held by Li Shaojun, and he felt that they were just eight rotten eggs.

Li Shaojun disdained the failed Eight-Step Immortality Pill, and Zhang Xuezhou had a similar attitude.

But as long as he thought about how he was still relying on Huang Daoxian's chip to refine the poison avoidance technique in real life, he felt that there was nothing wrong with keeping it properly, as he might need it someday.

"My bag was burned, and my official rank is not high enough to take the imperial bag. I don't have a suitable container for the time being, so I can only lock it up in a box!"

Zhang Xuezhou found a wooden box and looked through the cloth bag. He saw eight reddish-brown lumps the size of dates in the bag, and a lot of powder piled inside.

There are no industrial sealed bottles in reality, and it is impossible to seal it like the inner elixir. This kind of external elixir is not only difficult to seal, but it may also become ineffective and useless after a long time.

Zhang Xuezhou dipped his finger in the powder and licked it on his tongue.

His face suddenly turned red, as if a person who could not hold his alcohol had taken a gulp of strong liquor.

This stimulation spread throughout his body in a short time, causing Zhang Xuezhou's body to turn slightly red.

The poison avoidance technique eliminates the trace amount of toxicity in this tiny bit of powder, while the physical technique resists the impact from both inside and outside.

But even so, this elixir powder still brought out the physical characteristics of Zhang Xuezhou.

Zhang Xuezhou felt that if he took Li Shaojun's Eight-Step Immortality Pill normally, it would definitely have a strong impact on the body.

He carefully observed the pills that he wanted to store temporarily and decided to use them up when he had more free time to see if he could improve his poison avoidance skills. Dong Zhongshu, who was standing next to him, had his eyes wide open.

Dong Zhongshu looked at Zhang Xuezhou's body with some disbelief, as his blood and qi were glowing red, and there was a faint glow of magic power washing over his body, and even a faint green demonic power mixed in.

"What kind of elixir can boost Qi, blood and magic power at the same time?"

Dong Zhongshu put down the sleeve that was covering his nostrils, and his eyes felt a little hot.

Dong Zhongshu had been looking for something for many years that both Zhang Xuezhou and Li Shaojun seemed to dislike.

He followed the path of luck but did not create any future, and all his efforts were not as good as the occasional coincidence.

Just like the white meat that was unexpectedly obtained in the Huainan Palace, Dong Zhongshu felt that he had also encountered a kind of elixir that failed but was very likely to be very suitable for his own needs.